L10N migration to transifex.net

[Mike Hideo]

On 02/25/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 04:58 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
>> If the move was acutally the result of a purely authoritarian,
>> unilaterial "fiat", why not say so? Sometimes decisions like that are
>> indeed necessary in any community, which is why we have leadership -- to
>> make tough and sometimes even unpalatable decisions. But if that was
>> indeed the case (and I'm still open to the idea that I'm badly
>> misreading the situation) -- Why the pretense that it was anything other?
>
> I think you are misreading the situation. The Infrastructure team had
> known for a while that there were problems with the Fedora-local
> instance of Transifex, and members of the Fedora translator community
> were complaining about lack of needed functionality.
>
> It was proposed that since the current local transifex instance was not
> a viable solution for providing translations for Fedora 15, that we
> consider a move to the hosted tx.net offering (this was also the
> recommendation from the transifex upstream, who offered to provide this
> to us at no financial cost).
>
> This solution was presented to the Fedora translation community for
> consideration (albeit, with not a whole lot of time to decide), and they
> decided that was a good plan for F15, with the understanding that we can
> (and probably will) revisit this after Fedora 15 is done.

Hi Tom,

How do we get a commitment that there will be a process to govern this 
decision?

- Mike