[Qgis-psc] svn access for Richard Duivenvoorde

Thu Apr 10 07:41:39 PDT 2008

+1
But I hope we don't overwhelm Richard with too much work.

Regards,
Marco

Am Donnerstag 10 April 2008 16:23:01 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Shall we ask Richard if he is interested? It would be great if we
> could just forward all on and offlist .ts file submissions to him so
> there is a central 'go-to guy' on this.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 8< ------- snip -------
>
> > yes Marco, you can move this part to the Community Resources and we
> > should try to find a person that is responsible for committing GUI
> > translations and organizing the process. If needed I can help that person
> > (at least in the beginning).
> >
> >  regards,
> >
> >  Otto
> >
> >  > Regards,
> >  > Marco
> >  >
> >  > Am Donnerstag 10 April 2008 15:31:19 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> >  > > Hi
> >  > >
> >  > > Looking at the organigram I see we originally put Otto down as GUI
> >  > > translation team lead. So perhaps its better to defer to Otto how he
> >  > > wants to handle this with options being:
> >  > >
> >  > > 1) delegate  commits of ts stuff to somone else but maintain
> >  > > oversight and provide support for tr() process
> >  > > 2) give Otto commit access (if he doenst already have to code tree)
> >  > > and he just commits it.
> >  > >
> >  > > Probably there are other permutations and would be good to get
> >  > > Otto's thoughts on the matter.
> >  > >
> >  > > Regards
> >  > >
> >  > > Tim
> >  > >
> >  > > 2008/4/10, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
> >  > > > Hi
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Yes a translation manager would be great - actually maybe we can
> >  > > >  co-opt Richard to do this since he is already part of the release
> >  > > >  team?
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Regards
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Tim
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  2008/4/10, Marco Hugentobler 
<marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> >  > > > > Hi Tim,
> >  > > > >
> >  > > >  >  I fully agree with that caveat and that we should communicate
> >  > > >  > that clearly to him.
> >  > > >  >  In near future, I'm going to look out for a translation
> >  > > >  > manager and it will be similar problem. I think it is ok as
> >  > > >  > long as the number of people working on QGIS is limited and
> >  > > >  > everybody knows each other.
> >  > > >  >
> >  > > >  >  Regards,
> >  > > >  >  Marco
> >  > > >  >
> >  > > >  >  Am Donnerstag 10 April 2008 14:24:45 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> >  > > >  > > Hi
> >  > > >  > >
> >  > > >  >  > Its really great to have a volunteer to maintain the srs
> >  > > >  >  > database!
> >  > > >  >  >
> >  > > >  >  > +1 with caveat below.
> >  > > >  >  >
> >  > > >  >  > Since moving to OSGEO we no longer have granular access
> >  > > >  >  > controls for different areas of SVN so I would ask him to
> >  > > >  >  > constrain his activities to the .ts and srs db and if he
> >  > > >  >  > wants to expand to general coding commits he should first go
> >  > > >  >  > through the similar basic peer review process that other
> >  > > >  >  > contributors to go through.
> >  > > >  >  >
> >  > > >  >  > Paolo I have similar concerns about reinstating Leonardo's
> >  > > >  >  > access since I cant constrain his activities to the grass
> >  > > >  >  > plugin dir any more. Are you happy enough that he is up to
> >  > > >  >  > speed with using SVN properly now and that it is safe to
> >  > > >  >  > give him general commit access?
> >  > > >  >  >
> >  > > >  >  > Regards
> >  > > >  >  >
> >  > > >  >  > Tim
> >  > > >  >  >
> >  > > >  >  > 2008/4/10, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> >  > > >  >  > > Otto Dassau ha scritto:
> >  > > >  >  > > > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:57:48 +0200
> >  > > >  >  > > >
> >  > > >  >  > >  > Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> 
wrote:
> >  > > >  >  > >  >> Hi Gary, Otto, Paolo, Tim
> >  > > >  >  > >  >>
> >  > > >  >  > >  >> Richard is an active community member, in the release
> >  > > >  >  > >  >> team and now as maintainer of the srs database
> >  > > >  >  > >  >> (srs.db). I therefore like to ask your opinion about
> >  > > >  >  > >  >> giving him svn write access.
> >  > > >  >  > >  >>
> >  > > >  >  > >  >> My opinion is +1
> >  > > >  >  > >  >
> >  > > >  >  > >  > +1
> >  > > >  >  > >
> >  > > >  >  > > +1
> >  > > >  >  > >  Paolo
> >  > > >  >  > >
> >  > > >  >  > > --
> >  > > >  >  > >  Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
> >  > > >  >  > >  Io voto per il software libero:
> >  > > >  >  > >  http://elezioni.softwarelibero.it/info/iniziativa
> >  > > >  >  > >  Noi ci troviamo con parecchie difficoltà con NGI
> >  > > >  >  > > http://www.ngi.it/
> >  > > >  >  > >
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee