On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:34:00PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:47:57PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Is there some way we can have a list of groups that translators should > > be in, such that each module maintainer can add their module's group to > > the list? > > > > So e.g. I could say "translators should be in group dbus" and then > > translators would be able to access the dbus module. > > If the various projects are fine with this, we could have a very small > translators project. Every translator could be a member of this project, > so we could have a script to do the necessary sync. We could also hold a > list of participating projects in ~i18n, or whatever. > > However, this still doesn't change the base issue: with xorg (or > whatever), I'm personally quite uncomfortable every time we grow the > committers list[0], so I really don't think this is the best situation, > to be honest. > > Again, it's not that I distrust translators specifically, it's just that > I'm a cynical bastard when it comes to dumping code in something as > unimportant as, say, X. > > And, as Debian proved, every single developer is a possible attack > vector. Just on this note, let me state that I in no way consider translators as second-class citizens; nor documenters, UI dudes, general organisers, or anyone whatsoever just because they don't code. I'm just saying that I feel a twang every time I add someone to fd.o (in particular, the X projects, since they are so widely-deployed), and that if we were to wholesale import 88 or 120 committers ... wow. That's a big change, and 120 *more* potential attack vectors (even more than we already have). If there is any way to lessen the pain by a logical separation: coders can commit to the code components, translators can commit to the translation components, that would absolutely make my day. So yeah. All respect to translators, but I would be extremely loathe to add 88 or 120 coders, too. :) d -- Daniel Stone <daniel freedesktop org> freedesktop.org: powering your desktop http://www.freedesktop.org
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