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

[Isaac Rooskov]

Sounds good to be, thanks Sean :)

On 09/06/2013 07:58 PM, Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
> (2013年 09月06日 16:31), Sean Flanigan wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> Thank you for clarifying this. Yes, I mean "coordinator privilege".
> So I corrected my post at trans list.
>
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Yes, that is the fact.
> The first language team member is, in most case, Red Hat translator.
> And they usually have been contributing Fedora localization activity 
> as Fedora translator, thus maintaining closer communication with their 
> Fedora community language teams. Naturally they know who to be granted 
> the coordinator privilege, and who not to e granted.
> Again, I've posted this at trans list what I was originally aiming at.
>
>>
>> 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?)
>
> Sean, thank you so much. Yes, please do so.
>
> noriko
>
>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>


-- 
Isaac Rooskov
Supervisor, Localization Services
Product Manager, Zanata
Red Hat