On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:48, Ravishankar
<ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bala and Srikanth,
Thank you for the informative report.
I appreciate your role in coordinating, communicating lot of tech issues on behalf of Tamil Wikipedia community and many other budding Indic language communities which don't have face and voice yet.
Thank you, happy that some WikiGnome activities I do is appreciated :)
I hate that you are called "critics" when you are taking every effort to guide, bug test and fix the issues.
Wait, no one called us critics. I mentioned it myself, since people felt our mail as criticism. If giving critical feedback is being criticism, am happy to be critic. But i18n really like our bug reports :) , doesnt matter if we have differences of opinion.
From
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2011-December/000361.html
"In order to force them, "if you don't test this it may break horribly
for you when deployed" seems way more convincing than "no new goodies
for you"."
This attitude of i18n is not only very dangerous for the communities and languages but also very unprofessional.
I think the deploy is keyword here and I sincerely hope, the "dark launches" mentioned the thread will come soon and become the norm. 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.