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Hi. I am former translator from slovak team. I ceased translating after considerable translation efforts that just partially landed in the project. The main reason of my leaving was that I ran out of time that I was able to devote to translations. After all, I lost the majority of year 2007 waiting for Marcel because he was nowhere to find even for translators HQ. He was extremely busy that time and I was a novice so without his help my efforts were ineffective. This might be viewed just as a matter of past. The secondary reason, that also blocked part of my translations to hit the ground, was something that I percieved as moderate inflexibility. I appreciate Marcel's sense for perfection, however it seems he does not recognize reasonable limits for it sometimes. And sometimes it may seem that translation review is more of a school exam than a friendly debate. But please don't give these words a weight of a stone, I just try to formulate a fine idea. The biggest problem however, even then back in 2007-8, was Marcel's demand on me to take fulltime responsibility for the packages or to deal with former (long inactive) translators. I was just able to temporarily devote my time to fully translate the packages, and happily hand them to "future generations". However, Marcel did not want it this way. Please note, that majority of core packages needed massive amounts of work in 2007, and I was willing (and barely able) to perform that just once, in order to bring GNOME closer to my father and wife that don't speak english. But I was certainly not able to make a long-term commitment and take full-time responsibility for all of the packages for years to come, and I knew that for sure. Therefore, some translations that I already finished simply did not reach the project, and majority of the needed work I finally decided not to do at all. As I read Peter's letter, I see that things just worsen after my departure. Recently I considered returning to the project in order to help finishing translation of some packages I need, however as I see, I will not return under today's circumstances, because such a bureaucracy would waste my precious time, with good chance of no final accomplishments. >From user's point of view, I see the GNOME translation stagnating or even slowly losing completeness. I was wondering what happens, so now I know. Saying all of that, I do think Marcel should be thanked to because of his commitment to the role and for the great amount of translation work that he contributed over years. He took the translation project as his child, and it would be excellent indeed, if he wished to remain in the team as a translator. However, as far as I can say, he is probably much better translator than leader. His approach of managing the team is counter-productive and is percieved as an obstacle for others to make their contributions with passion. I think that since the team is willing to change the leader, it is necessary to do that. I remember the time when the team was nonfunctional, and I don't want to see it happen again. Change of roles should be viewed simply as a healthy democratic process, not as some kind of tragedy or definite status. Should there be a new leader, able to motivate translators to fresh performance, it's only good for the project and the users. Moreover, I think that leadership change could even be institutionalized somehow for situations like this. Your sincerely Peter Tuharsky Dňa 14.05.2010 01:00, Johannes Schmid wrote / napísal(a): Hi! Am Donnerstag, den 13.05.2010, 23:25 +0200 schrieb Peter Mraz: |