Re: New French coordinator?

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Christophe,

Thank you for confirming that this was indeed your resignation.

Today at 9:12, Christophe Merlet wrote:

> I'm a responsible person.
> Until there is a new coordinator, I continue tu assume my responsability.

Nobody said you were not responsible.  But there is more to this than that.

> You do not need to interfere in the procesus of change of coordinator of
> the GNOME French translation Team.

I already did interfere.  We've had a lot of outside input from French
translators and users complaining about bad state of the French team,
and we've had a lot of discussion on this matter.  And many of the
people involved in discussions have been people I fully trust.

It may have been a bad call (on my side) to jump into this right now,
but it was already my fault for not acting earlier.

>> If noone steps forward in the next couple of weeks, Benoît will stay
>> French coordinator until changed through our regular procedure :)
>
> You do not need to designate the coordinator. There is a democratic
> process in progress implying the 80 contributors of the GNOME French
> translations.

It should be clear that your contributions to GNOME are highly
appreciated, and you did a great work for both GNOME French and GNOME
itself during the past years!

But, unfortunately, since even before GUADEC, we (both Christian
"menthos" Rose and I) started receiving complaints about bad state
of the French team.  We fully understand it was partly due to your
health issues, and we hoped the situation would clear up on its own in
the French team (which didn't actually happen), thus we took no
immediate action.

In an effort to finally resolve all the issues, I took the liberty of
proposing Benoit as the new coordinator.  Since I have full respect
for you and your tremendous contributions to GNOME, I'll change my
mind, but I'll still leave only until the year's end for the new
coordinator assignment from you, taking into account advice from
Benoit as well.


So, this is my final proposal: if you, as the still current Gnome
French translation team coordinator, don't come up with the
replacement until 23:59UTC December 31st, 2006, Benoit is to be
considered a new French team coordinator.  Before accepting any
proposal from you, I'll personally consult several outstanding French
Gnome contributors.

This is not to interfere with any system you have for choosing another
coordinator inside French team.  Benoit has suggested himself to step
down if French team comes up with a good substitute, so the only
difference is that I won't require your confirmation for coordinator
change in 2007, but Benoit's.


Cheers,
Danilo