[webmin-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Wanted ... a new Webmin Translation Co-Ordinator

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

I'm sorry to hear that Martin Mewes needs to orphan his position as
Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin Translation Co-Ordinator. Please read his 
message below:

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Dear fellow Webmin-Translators, -Users and -Developers,

After some of 2 years being WTCO I need to orphan this position starting
01.08.2005. This gives me and you, Jamie, enough time to seek out for 
someone to replace me and to completely take over my tasks.

Reason is (as always) the time which I do not have anymore because I 
need to focus more on my $$$-jobs in order to stay in shape. This is 
not because my employer does not support OSS anymore, but certain 
changes in the internal infrastructure of our facility will keeping me
in learning new things and evenings I am just dead because of this.

For the adventurous volunteer, here are my tasks:
There is no reason to take over all tasks, but there is no limitation to
not take all ;-)

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1.      tra...@we...
        This will be your primary address where folks will send
        in their translation packages.
        Hint: Some still send in stuff to we...@we..., but
        I will forward packages to you.
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2.      Maintaining Mailinglists
        You will get full 'listadmin'-access to the following
        Mailinglists

        web...@ma...
        web...@ma...
        web...@ma...

        If wanted we can arrange the move of these lists to another
        system.
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3.      Keep an eye on wbmtranslator
        wbmtranslator is the main tool which was developed to
        translate packages. You should be able to support Emmanuel
        Saracco, the main developer, with new ideas on how to move
        this brilliant software to the next stage.
        http://labs.libre-entreprise.org/projects/wbmtranslator/

        Sometimes you will get updates for third-party-modules as
        well. Please help the contributor to find the correct
        developer to send the package to the correct person.
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4.      Keep an eye on webmin.com
        You will need to update WTCO-related pages as needed.
        These are:
        
        http://webmin.mamemu.de/mailing-trans.html
        http://webmin.mamemu.de/trans-cfq.html
        http://webmin.mamemu.de/trans.html
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These are some major rules:

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a).     The WTCO is fully in charge of motivating and 
        co-ordinating the various translators for Webmin/Usermin all
        over the world.
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b).     He is fully in charge on describing how to translate things.
        Not literally, but he decides on a technical basis how things
        are done.
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c).     He gives out additional technical guidelines which
        translations have to follow if needed and is the main person
        to ask help on translating things for.
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d)      He is leading internal discussions on if things are good or
        bad and decides on a democratic basis where and if possible.
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e)      The closer a release of Webmin/Usermin is coming he decides
        on things  like "Feature-Freeze" for translations.
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f)      He takes care that the translators always get the latest
        sources to translate so that they will be available in the
        next release.
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In the end I will have time enough to support Webmin with my mirror 
(http://webmin.mamemu.de/) and to maintain the Webmin-Archive 
(http://webmin.mamemu.de/wtco-shrine.html). In addition I will keep up 
sending my monthly newsletter and the "On the fly"-Stuff, but it will 
do no harm if the new WTCO (or someone else) would do this.

I will stay in the Webmin Translation Team and send in translations from
time to time.

It was really a great pleasure to work with you all.
Thank you all for patience :-)

bis dahin / kind regards

Martin Mewes