[haiku-doc] Re: [VOTE] Re: User Guide translations requiring teams
- From: Marcos Alves <haiku@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:13:56 +0100
> man … it's a mailing list for people giving their spare-time to the haiku
> sake.
> I don't really see what a dude could fear about. Get banned?
> Don't be ridiculous…
Remi, I (as you just did) just gave my opinion and i get politely
asked to leave (if that's really what he meant), and your opinion that
I should leave. Can you see why people might be afraid of posting?
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> You say you "don't want to be one of that group of people" and "since i'm not
> an active contributor"
What does one phrase have to do with the other? The contexts in which
I wrote both of those were / are totally different.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marcos Alves wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your PoV. It is indeed much appreciated. (note: no sarcasm
>> here!)
>> I'll stop posting to this thread now, unless someone "calls me" back here.
>>
>>
>
> I call you back here, to stop that nonsense and work towards contributing
> your translation (that's what everyone here wants)
Sorry, but to me it doesn't seem like that is what's happening. Anyway
see my next point, please.
> even if you find the
> current rules wrong (which you have every right to). You can't just give up
> on the first obstacle, this is not how life works...
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
I think I've done my share of trying to contribute and being prevented
of doing it. Having a pt_PT translation is more of a Haiku project's
interest than mine, really. I offered my free time and knowledge in
the only way that I could, and two things happened:
- on the OS localization (which all users will see) there were no
problems / limiting rules at all and the translation was always
updated (faster than most groups with >2 people) and correct (and it's
being used, even with the people in charge of committing the languages
to svn knowing that I won't update it anymore).
- on the User Guide (which most of the Alpha users won't even read
since they probably are geeks or people with some computer knowledge),
there were some limiting factors, and even tho I wasn't good enough to
actually translate the guide (since I was only one), I was still good
enough to create the Style Guide, Terminology Guide and a few wiki
pages. Then the incident came and the rest is all history.
So yeah, I'm done with contributing.
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