[fab] A real communication problem

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jul 13 13:25:37 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 08:19 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:42 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> > On Jul 10, 2006, at 15:59, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > 2.  Translation/Infrastructure in Red Hat was supposed to provide a
> > > gateway or integration with the translation system  
> > > (i18n.redhat.com) for
> > > docs stuff.  This would ease the burden on our community  
> > > translators to
> > > learn different systems, which is a real PITA for those who are  
> > > already
> > > giving so much of their time.  Again, no word.
> > 
> > So the hope as far as i18n.redhat.com goes (and I call it a hope  
> > because I dare not call it a plan) is to move those pieces of  
> > infrastructure over to the Fedora infrastructure. (There are also  
> > general CVS modules on the box that need to be moved over...)
> > 
> > Unfortunately, it's just having a really hard time getting action  
> > from the right people internally. I can help with some of it, but I  
> > do not understand exactly how the site works and what pieces need to  
> > be moved over. Integrating those pieces with the account system is  
> > one big task remaining to be done.
> 
> And I do not understand it *at all*, since I've only seen it from the
> outside.  And yes, I understand it's a big task.  Just for clarity's
> sake, our communication breakdown starts inside the Red Hat wall
> somewhere, but you and some other Fedora Infrastructure people are not
> part of that problem AFAICT.  As I mentioned elsewhere, the smaller part
> of the problem is progress; the larger problems is communication.  See
> below...

Let me try to stir up the hornet's nest about this some when I get into
the office...

Jeremy




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