Re: Damned Lies shows active member as inactive in translation team page

[Nilamdyuti Goswami <ngoswami redhat com>]

On 13-09-2013 08:32 অপৰাহ্ন, Rafael Ferreira wrote:

In resume: your user were moved to inactive, but you're actually active; and you want to contribute.

Maybe the inactive coordinator (Amitakhya Phukan) can move you to another rank, like committer or coordinator. Or any other Damned Lies maintainer can do it for you.

Thanks for the info Rafael! :-)

2013/9/13 Nilamdyuti Goswami <ngoswami redhat com>

Hi,

I Nilamdyuti Goswami (user name: ngoswami) started doing Assamese translation for Gnome UI from Gnome-3-0 and since Gnome-3-2 I have always maintained the UI status at 80% or more to make sure it gets released in Assamese. If the git logs are checked, it will be found that I am the only active member in the Assamese team who has been sincerely doing UI translations for the past two years. After Gnome-3-8 was released with 86% UI translation status for Assamese, I didn't immediately start working on Gnome-3-10 as it's status was also more than 80% (something like 85% if I correctly remember). I just kept the master branches updated from time to time and later on I kept it on hold for some time. Now, since Gnome-3-10 release date is approaching, I thought of updating the important packages. Although even if I don't do so, it will still get released in Assamese as the status was 80% when I started updating and presently it is 81%. Now, my question is why does Damned Lies shows an active member as inactive considering a very short inactivity time? What will a new translator who is keen on joining the Assamese translation team think when he visits the team page? Will not he think that there hasn't been any activity in the Assamese translation for Gnome since time immemorial? :-) Suddenly his love for his mother tongue will come into life and he will think about reviving a already active team (I don't know about others, at least I am doing my part, this is open source, we cannot force someone to work! :-) ) If some old mail threads are checked it will be found that a similar incident happened to the Marathi translation team. The team coordinator for Marathi had to list down the package names to which he had recently made commits and provide some other links to prove the new guy that he his active and that the new guy was misleaded. A bug was also filed in this context for Kannada translation team: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701190

So, what I feel is that Damned Lies should not show an active member as inactive so quickly. Moreover, when clicked on the member's name in the translation team page, the member's contributions should also be shown in whatever convenient manner possible instead of just showing the "Team Membership". I am not saying that it should show the member's entire git log! :-)   but at least it can show the releases to which the member has contributed. This will avoid a newbie from getting misleaded and get in touch with the right person to start contributing.

Regards,
Nilamdyuti Goswami

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