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George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> субота, 10. червень 2006 04:28, Christel Dahlskjaer Ви написали: |
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>> I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and |
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>> future of the GWN at their next meeting. |
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> Hah? What has concil to do with this? Is it going to mandate "GWN be better" |
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> and it magically turns into some other thing? Why do you think there is |
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> malicious intent here at all? |
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> [skipping the listing] |
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> All these problems can be explained very simply - a lack of manpower. As I |
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> understand, GWN now is a one-man endeavour and Ulrich was pointing this out |
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> himself and literally yelling for help! Many many times! Over approx last 6 |
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> month or so.. |
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> Do we want a more reliable and representative GWN? Of course! |
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> How we can get there? Well, stand up and help! Involving council is not going |
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> to do anything besides starting yet another pointless burocratic endeavor. |
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> Well, I suspect it won't do even that - I am pretty sure council is going to |
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> just throw out this "claim" even if you officially start it. They can of |
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> course mandate some more action, but what would be the point? If there are no |
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> people willing to stand up, then who will listen to it? |
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> So, to conclude this thing. The only way GWN is going to improve, is if some |
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> more people will "join the ranks" and start writing/editing GWN entries. I'd |
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> say a team of 3 people is usually sufficient, but we need more like 7 so that |
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> three are "available" for more than a first month :) (this is based on my |
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> experience with organazing Russian transation team in its early days), plus a |
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> steady stream of at least one new dev joining/two month, to compensate for |
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> people droppig out. This should also have an effect of draft GWN published at |
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> least a day in advance, instead of a few hours, so that the rest of us will |
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> be able (and will ;)) take a look at it and make corrections.. |
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> George |
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That's true. Ulrich has been asking desperately for help since a few |
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months now. |
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I propose we ask for contributors in the staffing-needs section instead |
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or before |
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taking this council way. |
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