So stating the truth is being unconstructive?. You could have rolled this out in phases or as a "dark launch" as you are contemplating now, done more testing and saved us all this bitterness and trouble. Instead you decided to go live on a massive scale without adequate testing in live environment being accessed by millions of people everyday. What kind of reaction did your expect?.
I could have been content with stopping the Tamil deployment and went on with my work. Instead i have spent nearly 20 hours testing other languages so that this tool gets better. Remember i am a volunteer, taking time off from my day job to test your code - something you should have done as part your professional work.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
<santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com> wrote:
Please read that mail once again, this was a response by
Platonides(not an i18n team member) to the comment by Srikanth L .
Srikanth said: " If people are not interested to join them, they must
be forced to join
> them(by way of not supporting them/ deploying any component for the
> language) so as to provide better support."
And now you are saying that it is the attitude of i18n and calling it
dangerous and unprofessional! Wonderful Ravishankar.
>. Nothing that breaks
> horrible must ever be deployed. We safeguarded Tamil(Malayalam folks did
> theirs too), we frankly didnt care much for others before the launch.
Srikanth, While I really appreciate the efforts you and Bala did with
the testing and reporting bugs, this kind of comments really
disappoint us. You are aware that the we were working round the clock
to fix all the bugs within hours and we wrote the complete details in
report. Safeguarding from a horrible deployment? Could you please
stop exaggerating things? We did expect bugs when we do this kind of
large scale deployment with too many languages, browsers, operating
systems and we addressed each of the bugs within hours. Some of these
bugs can be only detected when we expose the tool to a larger
audience. You are aware of that. All the open bugs now present are
are not in our control - Browser bugs and Fonts bug, we disabled them
for time being.
Please be constructive and help us as you were doing. We deserve some
appreciation for what we are doing.
-Santhosh