Re: Quitting as PT coordinator

[C R <cajhne gmail com>]

Thanks for all your work and high standards over the years!
Congrats on the birth of your child, and good luck in your life!

Much respect,
-C

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:34 AM, Duarte Loreto <happyguy_pt hotmail com> wrote:
> Dear GNOME'ers,
>
> I became the portuguese (pt) translator back in 2002. For many years I kept
> pt on the 100% (core). A couple people joined and we did a lot.
>
> Unfortunately as time goes by I became alone on this. And with my second
> child's birth, in 2012, my time became less and less. Since then I haven't
> been doing much for translations. In fact, I believe I'm being a problem to
> the continuation of the team. I have been trying to get someone to replace
> me. But either the people I talk with are not up to the standard I search
> (keep "new" spelling rules - controversial but official; quality; etc) or
> they give up before I convince them to take over.
>
> So... Basically pt is abandoned since 2014 and I have no time nor motivation
> to make time. I want to give up and put pt to a "no coordinator" status. I
> believe this is best for two reasons:
> 1) Potentially more people get interested as they may want to take the place
> up. People that would otherwise skip GNOME and look for a different project
> were they wouldn't have to submit to someone else's rules;
> 2) I no longer feel responsible for selecting (quality assurance) nor am "in
> the way" of someone trying to pick up the project.
>
> As such, please tell me what else do I need to do to quit. Specially with
> bugzilla bugs. There are a few there on me, a few on other people I tried to
> get to work on this and I never took them back under me.
>
> Thank you for reading and for any help on this. Cheers!
>
> Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto
> "Don't worry, be happy!"
>
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