Quoting Steve McIntyre (leader@debian.org): (in -devel-announce) > The i18n and l10n groups tend to be quite informally organised, but > (with a small number of exceptions) are mostly working well. There's a > small (and funny) contradiction in the responses here: Christian > Perrier told me that the team needs some stronger leadership and he > doesn't think he's good at organising things. Most of the other people > in this area said that they loved Christian and his efforts in > organisation. *grin* I want to comment on that. What I wanted to enhance in my own comment is that, being the de facto "leader" of the i18n group/team/whatever, most people around here probably rely on actions taken or initiated by /me. On the other hand, nothing but established practice did put me in that position. This is the Debian way to do things, for sure, but I don't feel I have the legitimity(en?) to organise/lead/dictate things more than any person in the i18n activities. Call it an "over-democracy" feeling or whatever but I think this is something that's a reality. And, sometimes, I have the strange feeling that this is silently censoring initiatives from other people. (silently is a joke, actually. Many know that I "talk too much"....nickname given to me my Konstantinos Margaritis) On the other hand, I confirm that my way to do things is most of the time not as careful and deeply thought as it might seem. I often tend to overread contributions, underestimate consequences and, in general, work too fast and not enough carefully with a quite strong tendency to never complete things. What is good in the Debian project is that there are people who are the exact opposite: more focused on specific tasks, doing them and only them but doing them very well (names come to my mind: Frans Pop, Helge Kreutzmann, Nicolas François, Justin B. Rye, Denis Barbier in the past, etc. sorry for all those who I forget here) This is the combination of both people acting as I do and people working as they do that makes a good team, but the most visible (or vocal) person should not hide (or censor) the work of all others. This is more or less what I expressed in the mail I sent to Steve when it comes at -i18n...see below (I did not remember that I made it that short....apparently, I'm not *always* talking too much). > > d. Are there enough resources for your teams to do their jobs well? If > not, what's missing? The i18n team is missing some formal structure. I think I'm mostly culprit for that as many people see myself as the team "leader" and therefore expect any movement to come from /me. I'm not the best suited person to *organise* stuff, indeed and we're really missing people who take responsibility to lead things.
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