[Enlightenment-intl] problem with contributions from batden

[Chidambar 'i. Z. <ill...@on...>]

 Hi all.

 I'm reluctantly writing today to discuss a problem currently happening
with Philippe Guillaumie (batden) and the French translation. I'm not
sending this light-hearted, but because my attempts to communicate with
him failed: I'm still waiting for a reply to my e-mail, and he's
nowhere to be seen on IRC.

 A little bit over a month ago, a colleague of mine came to me to tell
me about the poor state of the French translation in Enlightenment:
some strings were undecipherable, whereas some were completely
misleading and made him do wrong actions (especially "Reboot" and
"Restart Enlightenment"). I then had a quick look a the file, which
made me awe in shock by seeing the orthography and grammar mistakes,
and moreover the poorly worded and syntaxed sentences (even on strings
I happened to translate years ago!) They were certainly not up to the
quality that could be expected. I thus made a quick fix for some
strings (especially "Reboot" and friends), and changed at the same time
the team's address back to enlightenment-intl from his own, as I felt
it should be: a single individual (who moreover doesn't have commit
access) shouldn't be the sole recipient of messages that are for the
team.

 Oh that pissed him off. He addressed some messages to me on #e.fr
(connecting, sending message, disconnecting, thus preventing any
discussion from happening), stating that I had no right to commit
without his permission, had to go through him, that it was how it
worked and was non-negociable and that the team address was his because
he was in charge of it.

 As I had no chance to discuss, as he was always disconnecting right
after sending those messages, I sent him an e-mail, expressing my
points of view: that I had right to contribute French translations,
that being in my area of expertise, that never did he or anyone state
that he was in charge and everything had to go through him, and the
thing about the team address I stated before. I'm still waiting for a
reply.

 The next day, he came to #e.fr, stating my inappropriate commit broke
the system control dialog. Vincent and I replied that translations
weren't to circumvent theme bugs, thanking him for the report: I said
I'd have a look at it (true, I have yet to do that, completely forgot
about it), which made him reply that he was doing something better:
giving me charge of the translation, leaving immediately the project,
and disconnected. For the record, everybody on #e.fr had been pretty
stunned by his reaction.
 I committed a few days later a huge change, correcting many strings,
but still leaving many untouched, as I felt I'd better be doing some
code, and that translation could wait a little bit.

 Fast-forward to earlier this week, when he sent a new PO file to
e-intl. I was actually pretty happy about it, until I had a look at
the contents. All my corrections were gone. Everything was back to how
they were before: hi again spelling and grammar mistakes, and welcome
back poorly-worded sentences, which, for a nitpicker and perfectionist
like I tend to be, are blood-tearing.

 I thus asked on #edevelop for people not to commit it, and sent an
e-mail to Massimo stating the same (he did commit it anyway). I sent an
e-mail to Philippe, stating that while I was happy he wanted to be part
of the project again, I was wondering why he reverted all my changes.
As expected, I have yet to hear back from him. I didn't want to revert,
as I feel there's no need to play who's the most childish.

 After discussing with others, conclusion was that best thing to do was
to go public, as I have yet to hear anything from him, hence this
pretty long message.

 I'm hoping that Philippe will finally come out of his mutism and state
what he has to say.

 Thank you for reading.

 Cheers!

 Chidambar