Hello L10n team, This message is primarily intended for people on the FLSCo, but I hope it is of interest to other Fedora L10n community members. With any large team effort, it's natural for there to be specific areas of expertise that emerge among the group. For instance, Fedora recently appointed -- more or less by consensus -- Ian Weller as our Fedora "wiki czar." He has done such a tremendous job of maintaining the wiki and setting up sane rules for usage that we needed to recognize his efforts with the official capacity to carry out those important duties. In much the same way, there is a core group within the Fedora L10n team that has become very much concerned with the development of infrastructure that allows community translators to easily help with translations. This group includes Dimitris Glezos, Asgeir Frimannsson, and Diego Búrigo Zacarão, among others. These contributors, through working on the various instances of Damned Lies and Transifex, have shown their commitment to a stronger translation infrastructure in Fedora and beyond. Over the past year, there have been some misunderstandings or miscommunications about current and future translation platforms. Sometimes one piece of the platform is blamed for the problems of another piece, or there are problems in keeping the whole L10n team aware of progress being made. I believe these are problems that could be solved by a small, dedicated group, if they are entrusted by the FLSCo to do so. That is why I am asking the FLSCo to approve and support a "Fedora L10n Infrastructure" team, which will be accountable for moving the Fedora translation platform forward starting now. The FLSCo is elected by the community to ensure that the entire L10n team has what it needs to continue bringing the best of FLOSS in Fedora to the widest possible audience. One of the things they can do to ensure that success is to place accountability for the development of the L10n infrastructure in such a core group. This is exactly the same way the FESCo has empowered both the Release Engineering and Spins groups to take care of specific pieces of Fedora work. There are several very important pieces of work that need to be accomplished to provide a solid infrastructure for the L10n team for Fedora 11 translations. The Beta freeze is approaching quickly, and there is still some testing needed to ensure that platform will be ready for translators. This Fedora L10n Infrastructure team should collaborate with each other -- and with the general Fedora Infrastructure team as needed -- to produce a satisfactory platform for Fedora 11 translations and beyond. They should also be reporting their plans, decisions, and progress to the FLSCo whenever needed, and regularly to the entire Fedora L10n team through this list. So, in summary: * I would like the FLSCo to approve and support placing accountability for the L10n infrastructure in a four-person group, including Dimitris, Asgeir, Diego, and one more person on whom those three people can agree. * I would like the FLSCo to do this within the next 24-48 hours -- in other words, as soon as possible, to make sure we have sufficient time for the necessary testing. I hope FLSCo members will agree and give a "+1" to my proposal. Thank you for reading and for all your work in Fedora -- your contributions make our project a truly global force in free software. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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