No offense, but you're a technical expert and used to Fedora's way of
working ;)
Plus, you analyzed a process and did not experienced it as the target :
newcomer who knows nothing about Fedora process/rules and would like to
correct something or help translating something he likes.
I remember my registering last year and it is not as easy has it looks
like. It was confirmed by two newcomers in french team.
If the wiki needs the contributor to be in a dedicated group, I think
it's time to discuss process, make it easier and to document it.
I think nobody knows what "cvsl10n" means anymore and the vocable is
changing a lot from Coordinator, Sponsor, Maintainer, Administrator (I
discovered this one today). Now, you're talking about "Leaders", are
they the same ?
How to we change responsibilities from one to another ? And what can we
do if one coordinator/sponsor/leader/... don't answer anymore so we make
sure no contributor is neglected ?
It's even harder for contributors to understand the limit between the
translation platform we use as a tool and Zanata as a independent project.
Plus, it's hard for a coordinator to understand what tools does he have
to manage something (not a lot actually).
All l10n groups looks out of date (names are very old, so are links and
the percentage of unapproved subscription is very high, witch _may_ mean
: no more management) :
cvsl10n
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/view/cvsl10n?_csrf_token=a...
Translation CVS Commit Group cvs cla_done
gitman-pages-l10n
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/view/gitman-pages-l10n?_cs...
gitman-pages-l10n git cla_done
l10n-admin
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/view/l10n-admin?_csrf_toke...
l10n Admin Group tracking cla_done
l10n-commits
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/view/l10n-commits?_csrf_to...
l10n Commit Group tracking None
l10n-editor
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/view/l10n-editor?_csrf_tok...
Localization (L10n) Editors tracking cla_done
Note that the "L10N/Guide" page says everyone has to be in cvsl10n but
the "L10N maintainer" page may be understood that it is to be maintainer.
What's the purpose of creating a component in bugzilla if we have no
mailing list to be warned ?
What makes a languages dead or alive ?
If we have to create one or many groups, can we take benefit of it ? In
knowing who are the contacts, responsibilities, reach them, sync with
fedora.zanata ?
BTW, why do we have private mailing lists ? It already sounds weir as
open-source contribution/discussions should be public by default and
private by exception, but even more since hyperkitty can't register
anymore, you may try with trans-pl being registered or not :
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/?count=200&sort=name&page=3
It's a lot of questions and I think we should admit it isn't easy to
come and contribute Fedora translations and to understand how does it works.
This spam issue looks like a good opportunity to make it easier (maybe
not by deleting steps, but by making it smoother, more consistent).
--
Jean-Baptiste Holcroft