Re: Cathedral, bazaar models and DL

[Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi!

> As for my team, Jiri already explained a lot in his messages in the Slovak
> coordination thread. Our team approach is liberal in that it allows
> interested translators to reserve a module for as long as they wish, given
> one continuously works on one's module and is able to finish one's work in
> time, e.g. before the module release. Having long-term assignment has
> several advantages, I think that many have been already mentioned: clearly
> apportioned team work, minimizing the risk of inconsistency and/or
> different translation style, chance of being proud of "my" module work, etc.
> 
> But I wouldn't compare it to the cathedral-bazaar paradigm, really. Teams
> with long-term module assignment can still work as in bazaar; just like in
> many others non-l10n open source teams, they make use of work or task
> assignment to their team members for a period of time, but this surely
> doesn't make their development model cathedral-like.
> 
> The problem with the Slovak approach might be that it's simply too
> excessive, a coordinator possesses team superpowers, and other
> team members aren't able to reach a reasonable level of team work
> responsibilities. Therefore it causes team conflict.

Thanks for your answer! Actually I did not intent to start a discussion
on cathedral vs. bazaar style team leading. On the one hand that's up to
the teams and on the other hand you point out in a great way why neither
of them is perfect.

Johannes