Re: Missing language teams from Mango

[Runa Bhattacharjee <runabh gmail com>]

Hi,

Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:56:38PM +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee wrote:
>   
[snip]
> > 1. New Team just starting off, without any kind of accounts (coordinator or 
> > team member) - Where is the account request for the first account to be 
> > sent and what are the checklist items that need to be completed to get the 
> > account? e.g. Pashto
> >     
>
> When Mango allows it, in Mango. Depending of course on what is needed,
> SVN or just an LDAP. At for SVN, check if the language is there. If not,
> mail accounts  
>
> In future, GTP spokepersons should be able to vouch for new LDAP
> accounts, and edit the voucher list shown on Mango. One thing that
> doesn't work ATM as well is that existing LDAP accounts cannot request
> additional permissions (e.g. new language starts off, only gets just
> LDAP.. later wants SVN... not possible do request via Mango ATM).
>   

>   
> > 2. Existing Team with translations, without co-ordinator account due to a 
> > change in co-ordinator - Where is the account request for the first account 
> > to be sent and what are the checklist items that need to be completed to 
> > get the account? e.g. Marathi
> >     
>
> When Mango allows it, in Mango. One day the existing coordinator should
> first approve the account of the new coordinator, then change the
> coordinator for the language to the new coordinator. This all within
> Mango. Again, that hasn't been developed at this stage.
>
>   
> > 3. Existing Team with translations, with co-ordinator account, not listed 
> > in Mango - Where does a team member send the request for an account? e.g. 
> > Gujarati, Bengali-India
> >     
>
> accounts gnome org
>
> In future, GTP spokepersons would edit those details.
>   

Thanks a lot for the clarifications. Things make sense now.
>   
> > None of these above cases can be handled by the only documentation 
> > available to the GTP volunteers at present, which are:
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/RequestingAnAccount
> > http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/AccountFAQ
> >     
[snip]
> > > Currently people will be pretty much lost if they're forgot their Mango
> > > password etc, I have ideas about solving that. But don't have time, I
> > > work on more stuff on GNOME than Mango, etc.
> > >   
> > >       
> > Irrespective of what happens beyond the abstracted layer for the accounts 
> > queue handling/admininstration, the translation teams can only meet 
> > specific instructions as per whatever is the current process as determined 
> > and documented by the GTP to get an account.
> >     
>
> Perhaps add a: 'For cases 1/2/3, mail accounts gnome org' ?
>   
Yes.  Mailed the accounts gnome team since, all the above cases are 
still under their purview. Also, I am ready to help out on the 
documentation pages in case it needs volunteers.

Thanks again.

regards
Runa

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