Re: New Urdu Team

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 6/15/06, Muhammad Waqas Alam <mwalam_uk yahoo co uk> wrote:
> Dear Christian and Danilo,
> There was no reply from Shahzad, the current coordinator of the Urdu
> translations, for over a week. The initial e-mail was sent at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2006-June/msg00037.html
>
> Is it possible to arrange now to change the Urdu coordinator?
> I am interested in becoming the coordinator of the GNOME Urdu Localisation
> effort.

Dear Muhammad, I am sorry for the delay.

I and many others would obviously love to see GNOME finally get some
Urdu support, but past experiences with past Urdu coordinators have
left me a little suspicious.

You see, the current Urdu coordinator (Shahzad Chohan) took over the
Urdu coordinatorship after the coordinator before him (Adeel Munir)
had proven to do nothing at all, not ever producing a single Urdu
translation, nor responding to any requests. This was in March 2004
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2004-March/msg00268.html).

Now we are here, several years later, in the exact same position, but
now it's with Shahzad Chohan -- he has also failed to produce and
contribute a single message of Urdu, so the Urdu stats is still 0%,
and he doesn't respond to mails either.

So you probably see why I am frustrated and suspicious about the
situation. To ease my mind, could you please give me a reference
(preferrably an URL) that points to past Urdu translations that you
have produced? It would be a lot of help in determining that this time
it's "for real", before we make a decision about the new
coordinatorship for Urdu.


Thanks,
Christian