Re: [Savannah-hackers] sava nnah.gnu.org: submission of Porgrama Administrativo para Pequeñas Or

[John Lenton]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:17:21PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> >I don't remember having read this paragraph before; what it
> >_implies_ is that there is some kind of "approval" process, but
> >it doesn't clearly, explicitely state it. I think it could be
> >clearly staded, possibly in Step 1, something along the lines of
> >"Once you submit the request, volunteers will blah blah blah".
> >Something that tells me that all information submitted will be
> >read by a human before the project is created, *before* I reach
> >the final step. Somehow I missed the above paragraph, and I
> >believed the process was fully automatic. I therefore (the first
> >time) just put in placeholder descriptions; I am not the only
> >person working on the Project, and the Project Summary will
> >probably be written by somebody else.
> 
> I dont understand why it's important to say that humans do the approval.

in my case at least it was: I wouldn't've said "Ok, I'll tell
so-n-so to fill these in later"; I would've written in something,
anything, even if then it needed rewriting.

> (errare humanum est)

I'm the first to ack that :)

> >Furtthermore I submitted the project name as its full in spanish,
> >and was pointed out that is should be in english as english was
> >the official language of savannah.
> 
> I've written this :
> « Just a comment (this has nothing to do with the registration process) 
> : you should think about an internationalized name, that would make it 
> easier for users to understand.
> You can use spanish (why not ?) but I think it should be a simpler 
> name. »

I like your gillemots :)

> Should I consider you as a liar :)  ?

I quote (the person who said it knows who he is, but his email is
@gnu.org, so he should know what he's speaking about):

« Para registrar un proyecto aquí, tienes que darle un nombre en inglés y
escribir una descripción completa en inglés que es el idioma oficial de
Savannah. »

I.e., « To register a project here, you have to give it a name in
english and write a full description in english that Savannah's 
official language. »

> >Also the system truncated the project name without any warning.
> 
> You can send a bug report.

will do.

> This language requirement doesn't exist , nobody have said something 
> like this.

unfortunately somebody has.

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