[Mageia-sysadm] LDAP group for translator, delegation

Sat Feb 19 16:45:06 CET 2011

 On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:17:42 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2011/2/19 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> After the meeting of i18n, where people asked me to come to discuss 
+>> tx, I
+>> discovered
+>> that it was not working for people outside of me, due to various acl 
+>> issues.
+
+ For reference :
+ http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-i18n/2011/mageia-i18n.2011-02-17-18.33.html
+
+>> So now this is fixed ( rev 1139 ), there is the question of who 
+>> should
+>> access transifex.
+>>
+>> Jehane on #mageia-i18N proposed to have the access for each 
+>> tranlator (
+>> sound good ),
+>> and I proposed to restrict staff/super user privileges to team 
+>> leader. ( I
+>> do not know yet
+>> what it mean for transifex ).
+>>
+>> First question :
+>>
+>> Should we have 1 big group for that, and let people manage the 
+>> various
+>> subteams outside
+>> of ldap, or have 1 group per language ?
+>>
+>> 1 big group is easier, and we can delegate the management to 1/2 
+>> person ( ie
+>> i18n team leader ).
+>>
+>> Several group is IMHO more scalable, but this requires more work on 
+>> our
+>> side. And this will not
+>> map to permission on tx and the blog, among others.
+>
+> 1 big group will surely mean less work for all involved, it also 
+> means
+> more discipline for the translators/ language team leaders. :)
+
+ Yes, and I am not sure it is wise to ask more discipline on more 
+ poeople to be a good idea.
+ We should not impose too much burden on sysadmin for sure, but neither 
+ should we on
+ others, especially for very small team.
+ 
+> If I understand previous discussions correctly this has nothing to do
+> with the commit permissions (pushing translated files to svn).
+
+ For the moment, the permission on tx are linked to the right to commit 
+ on svn, but
+ this was mainly for testing purpose and lack of pbetter proposal than 
+ anything.
+
+ For efficiency reason, we could try to find something that 
+ automatically make team leader able
+ to write to svn. But I see no easy way to do it ( I see complex way on 
+ the other hand ).
+
+> For safety reasons (bus error) I suggest to go for 2 person 
+> management.
+
+ Yup. We can just set both of the owner of the group.
+
+-- 
+ Michael Scherer
+
+
+