Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

On 03/15/2011 05:19 PM, Petr Kovar wrote:
> "Jason D. Clinton"<me jasonclinton com>, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:28:08 -0500:
>
> (...)
> > Beginning in the next few days the Marketing Team will select applications to
> > feature for the 3.0 release. The criteria will be the following:
> >
> > 1. Quality
> > 2. Solving a popular problem
> > 3. GNOME-iness
> > 4. Bonus points for cross-platform-iness
> For me, a quality GNOME application means that its development process is
> predictable, scheduled to same degree, and providing translators and/or
> documentation writers necessary time period of string freeze.
>
> Furthermore, GNOME-iness to me means that an application developer is open
> to the idea of collaborating with the GNOME Translation Project, whether
> it's our community effort to have unified l10n workflow as far as GNOME
> applications are concerned, possibility to foster translation consistency
> among GNOME applications, or at least to have a communicative and responsive
> application maintainer who doesn't regard translators to be second class
> citizens in the application development processes.
>
> So if you are prepared to give bonus points for cross-platform-iness
> (nothing against that), why not consider giving bonus points for something
> that has been one of the principal goals of the GNOME Project for quite
> some time, that is i18n/l10n?
> Yet there are other important GNOME aims like a11y, but perhaps that is
> already included in that "Quality" part?
Very good point!
Bringing accessibility to computing regardless of physical or mental 
abilities or language is a critical part of our mission and it's a 
standard that we should expect from our applications.
These matters should weight in heavily when selecting the apps we 
promote on the website the coming months.
> Thanks, may I suggest that gnome-i18n members (or a person delegated by
> them) could take part in the decission process then? That would possibly
> make the situation clearer, more transparent to the GNOME translation
> community, and, needless to say, for the benefit of the GNOME international
> end-users.
Sure, sounds like a very good idea!
- Andreas