On 25/12/06, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
Please drop the whole, "I'm not a developer, why the hell should I
co-operate with you" attitude.
Your assessment of the situation is highly unfair. There was no such
attitude in either the original posting or in Gerard's comment (which I
wholeheartedly agree with). Quite to the contrary, you (developers)
should drop this "Do everything exactly as /we/ want or we will ignore
your contribution and pretend it's useless to us" attitude.
You missed the thread on mediawiki-i18n where Gerard expressed similar
sentiments before.
I try to avoid adopting that attitude, actually - where someone posts
a non-patch, or where something isn't done "100% right", I try to work
with what we've been given and often upload a proper patch to
demonstrate, for the next time, what we're looking for.
If you do not have the technical means or competency to copy & paste a
little piece of text from a posting and submit it to MediaZilla (or
indeed SVN) yourself, then let someone else do it.
As I explained in the email, I didn't do it because I wasn't sure that
I had things set up right so that all sorts of hell wouldn't happen to
the text in the interim.
already done it. But stop discouraging non-developers,
*ESPECIALLY*
translators, from contributing.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone from contributing. I am trying to
encourage people, where possible, to place things in the "usual
location", since it means their contribution is *less likely* to go
"ignored".
Rob Church