[native-lang] Re: [Fwd: Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years]

Please, can anyone look into my issue?



> Hello dev list,
>
> Since August 2009 I have been trying to join the Albanian team (sq), 
> but there has not been any response for far.
>
> I have not received any response from the team leader Shkumbin Saneja 
> at all. Since the last piece of work this team did was for OOO 1.1.4 I 
> believe this team is not active anymore.
>
> Please look into this matter. If the current team leader needs to 
> approve things, it means that the whole team is inactive because of him.
>
>> From what I can see, the last thing this team did was almost 5 years 
>> ago.
>
> Please help. I want to take over this project and get some active 
> people involved. Many have gone to launchpad and are translating 
> OpenOffice for Ubuntu in Albanian. For me, that's not the right level 
> to translate since only Ubuntu and sub distros of Ubuntu will benefit.
> But, can only guess that many of them tried to register here, but 
> because no one admitted they have found another place to have fun.
>
>
> Thanks,
> //Agroni
>
>
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years
> From:
> Louis Suarez-Potts <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:34:55 -0500
> To:
> [email protected]
>
> To:
> [email protected]
> CC:
> [email protected]
>
>
> Hello, Agroni,
>
> On 2010-02-13, at 21:20 , [email protected] wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Charles and Louis,
>>
>> Since August 2009 I have been trying to join the Albanian team (sq), but there has not been any response for far.
>>
>> I have not received any response from the team leader Shkumbin Saneja at all.
>>
>> Since the last piece of work this team did was for OOO 1.1.4 I believe this team is not active anymore.
>>
>> Please look into this matter. If the current team leader needs to approve things, it means that the whole team is inactive because of him.
>>
>> From what I can see, the last thing this team did was almost 5 years ago.
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> //Agroni
>>
>>     
>
> I think the best tactic here is to inform the broader lists via dev@native-lang and also dev@l10n about this situation. It's normal in Foss projects, which are often volunteer-run, for the responsible to disappear as they become engaged in other (often remunerative) activities. It's life. But equally, we can always and always are soliciting new interest.
>
> Given the nature of Albanian and its polity, I'd also wonder if it would help to engage government support? 
>
> Foss saves money. Gives freedom. Builds local economies. Is good. :-)
>
> Ciao
> Louis
>   
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>>
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>> Feb 6, 2010 09:19:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue:
>> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=103426
>>
>>
>> User agroni changed the following:
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>> What |Old value |New value
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>> Component|native-lang |l10n
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>> QA contact|issues@native-lang |issues@l10n
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>> ------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun Feb 7 02:19:42 +0000 2010 -------
>> Still no response from no one.
>>
>> Looks like the whole albanian team has abandoned this project.
>>
>> Please, assign me as a new albanian team leader.
>>
>> Come on, please, it's been 6 months since the last post here.
>>
>>
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