[zanata-users] List-forking. A clarification about Zanata admin rights

[Sean Flanigan]

On 2013-09-06 15:20, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Isaac pointed out, rightfully so, that hijacking a self-introduction
> thread was poor form.
> 
> <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2013-September/011034.html>
> mentions:
> 
> "For the coordinator of each language team who has not yet gained the
> admin privilege of your language team in ZANATA, please contact Issac,
> me or Red Hat employees of your language team. We will be happy to grant
> the admin privilege to you. (You must to be current coordinator on the
> team list.)"

For "admin privilege", read "coordinator privilege".  Admin is something
else.  (See below.)

> 
> So, if I break it down, if I were seeking admin access to
> Bengali(India), I'd have to write in to either:
> 
> - Isaac
> - Noriko
> - Or, whoever in my language team is also a Red Hat employee
> 
> The clarification I seek is about this third actor. How is it that a
> Red Hat employee, who may be a contributor to my language, is by
> default able to grant me (a non Red Hat employee) admin access?

Being a Red Hat employee doesn't grant anyone special privileges in
Zanata, but I suppose the first language team member is likely to be a
team coordinator and the first language team member is also likely to be
from Red Hat.

If you want to volunteer for the coordinator role, you can click
"Contact Language Team Coordinators" and send a request.  If there are
any existing coordinators, it will go to them, otherwise this will go to
an admin mailing list.  A team coordinator, or any admin, can make
another team member into a coordinator for that team.

(Actually, Noriko, Isaac, mind if we add you to that mailing list?)


> As I mentioned at
> <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2013-September/011054.html>,
> 
> "Usually, for other systems that I am familiar with, when a member of
> the language community
> desires admin access as a coordinator of the language, they write to
> the admin of the infrastructure/ticketing system. In this case, it
> appears to be otherwise.

No, same here.

> So, I wanted to know if there is a plan to
> change the system that you have in place with something else."

Not that I know of.

> Additionally, could you also clarify if Zanata uses "admin" and,
> language coordinator as synonyms? Translation Content Management
> systems prefer the latter than the former. Admin is usually reserved
> for those who have access to the infrastructure.

That's right, admin is a global privilege level, whereas language
coordinator is a lower privilege level which applies to a single language.


-- 
Sean Flanigan

Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat

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