On 25/12/06, Timwi timwi@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