4 Votes

Mjbmr mjbmri at gmail.com
Sun May 17 14:33:30 CDT 2015


Why a Persian thinks that his Luri translation is good and no one can 
take it down?

Why a Mazandarani can't take his own translation down?

On 5/17/2015 11:57 PM, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote:
>
> Sorry, but it seems to me that you believe to be absolutely right 
> (which I am in no expert position to challenge), but in that case you 
> should be able to convince other language experts and users to support 
> your position and stop insisting that you should be able to override 
> earlier approved values just because you say so. The purpose of the 
> vetting process is to produce generally acceptable values, and the 
> tickets complement it effectively.
>
> Erkki I. Kolehmainen
>
> *Lähettäjä:*Mjbmr [mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com]
> *Lähetetty:* 17. toukokuuta 2015 21:45
> *Vastaanottaja:* Erkki I Kolehmainen; cldr-users at unicode.org
> *Aihe:* Re: 4 Votes
>
> Actually I was telling the reasons stops me from contributing. So 
> please don't call it open source when I as a "guest" can't override an 
> approved wrong item.
>
> On 5/17/2015 6:10 PM, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote:
>
>     Dear Mjbmr,
>
>     Submitting a ticket is the agreed-upon method to make (and – in
>     fact - authorize) TC to act on specific issues, not a discussion
>     on the cldr-users mailing list. Other than that, it is justifiably
>     somewhat more difficult to overturn an _/approved/_ value than to
>     introduce a new one.
>
>     Discussion on the ticket also invites more effectively the
>     interested parties to express and justify their positions.
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Erkki I. Kolehmainen
>
>     Tilkankatu 12 A 3, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
>
>     Mob: +358400825943, Tel / Fax (by arr.): +358943682643
>
>     *Lähettäjä:*CLDR-Users [mailto:cldr-users-bounces at unicode.org]
>     *Puolesta *Mjbmr
>     *Lähetetty:* 17. toukokuuta 2015 14:37
>     *Vastaanottaja:* cldr-users at unicode.org
>     <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>
>     *Aihe:* Re: 4 Votes
>
>     Shervin, I wasn't "mobilizing" people to vote, I asked to contribute.
>
>     For example we found a horrible translation for PS territory code
>     in Mazandarani language which I asked the original person to fix
>     that, but I also voted for new translation, it's not going to be
>     the winning item, ST has chose older translation over the new one
>     even both have two votes. Please fix that.
>
>     The translation for Northern Luri language in Northern Luri
>     language you have put is "لری شمالی" which is wrong and should be
>     "لوری مینجایی" which it couldn't be possible to take the approved
>     one down with some votes.
>
>     I also couldn't fix translation for such as "US English" in
>     Persian, it's not going to loose approved translation.
>
>     Most of translations for "America" is "Emrica" and "Africa" is
>     "Efrica" in Persian.
>
>     I remember back in a few years ago, I applied translations for
>     these in Persian, but they are gone.
>
>     Please don't ask me to submit a ticket for these problems, I
>     already said what's required.
>
>     On 5/17/2015 2:36 AM, John Emmons wrote:
>
>         Generally speaking, they go from "guest" to "regular" by
>         becoming members of the Unicode consortium.
>
>         The TC always has the option ( but not the obligation ) to
>         confer "regular" status on an individual for a particular
>         language.  We deal with these on a case by case basis.
>
>
>         Regards,
>
>         John C. Emmons
>         Globalization Architect & Unicode CLDR TC Chairman
>         IBM Software Group
>         Internet: emmo at us.ibm.com <mailto:emmo at us.ibm.com>
>
>
>
>
>         From: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com>
>         <mailto:Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com>
>         To: John Emmons/Austin/IBM at IBMUS, "Steven R. Loomis"
>         <srl at icu-project.org> <mailto:srl at icu-project.org>
>         Cc: Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:shervinafshar at gmail.com>, "cldr-users at unicode.org"
>         <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org> <cldr-users at unicode.org>
>         <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>, Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>
>         Date: 05/16/2015 04:48 PM
>         Subject: RE: 4 Votes
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>         How would unaffiliated folks go from “guest” to “regular”?
>
>         It seems like if certain folks are interested in language(s)
>         that the organizations working in CLDR don’t have a business
>         interest in, it might be good to have a way to get at least
>         some of the parties that are interested in those languages to
>         be “regular”.
>
>         -Shawn
>
>         *From:*CLDR-Users [mailto:cldr-users-bounces at unicode.org] *On
>         Behalf Of *John Emmons*
>         Sent:* Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:38 PM*
>         To:* Steven R. Loomis*
>         Cc:* Shervin Afshar; cldr-users at unicode.org
>         <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>; Mjbmr*
>         Subject:* Re: 4 Votes
>
>         I will definitely underline what Steven just said.  Even a
>         single vote ( 1 point ) will give an item draft="unconfirmed"
>         status, which will make it part of the CLDR. The draft status
>         is simply intended to be a rough measure of how much faith we
>         put in the quality of any given data item.
>
>         I certainly hope that you don't feel your efforts in
>         contributing to the CLDR will be wasted.
>
>
>         Regards,
>
>         John C. Emmons
>         Globalization Architect & Unicode CLDR TC Chairman
>         IBM Software Group
>         Internet: emmo at us.ibm.com <mailto:emmo at us.ibm.com>
>
>
>
>
>         From: "Steven R. Loomis" <srl at icu-project.org
>         <mailto:srl at icu-project.org>>
>         To: Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>>
>         Cc: Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail.com
>         <mailto:shervinafshar at gmail.com>>, "cldr-users at unicode.org
>         <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>" <cldr-users at unicode.org
>         <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>>, John Emmons/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
>         Date: 05/16/2015 01:41 PM
>         Subject: Re: 4 Votes
>         Sent by: "CLDR-Users" <cldr-users-bounces at unicode.org
>         <mailto:cldr-users-bounces at unicode.org>>
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>         In other words, provisional status does not mean that your
>         votes are removed from CLDR! They become a part of the release
>         on our freely available for implementations to use
>
>         Enviado desde nuestro iPhone.
>
>         El may 16, 2015, a las 11:28 AM, Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com
>         <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>> escribió:
>
>         I only try to help these people and these languages, that's
>         all. I'll give up if there is something blocking me.
>
>         On 5/16/2015 10:28 PM, Shervin Afshar wrote:
>         Actually I wasn't talking about any specific language.
>
>         It's true about any language and guest voters voting on them.
>
>         So if that's true, why didn't you tell me at the first time so
>         I wouldn't waster my time on contacting people?
>
>         Sorry to hear that you wasted your time mobilizing people to
>         vote. I pointed you to the CLDR process document in the
>         beginning of this thread. All the procedures and regulations
>         regarding voting and contribution is documented there. I
>         invite you to study that document carefully if you decide to
>         keep contributing to the CLDR (which I hope you do).
>
>         I'm sure we don't have high value vote people in Unicode
>         organizations from all languages. Better be another choice,
>         like a wiki would be better.
>
>         Unicode and CLDR are not working with wiki model, but since
>         you're involved with Wikimedia Foundation projects as well,
>         you can bring their attention to the issue of your interest in
>         these languages. On occasions, WMF has organizational votes on
>         some locales:
>         _
>         _https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR
>
>
>         ↪ Shervin
>
>         On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com
>         <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         Actually I wasn't talking about any specific language.
>
>         So if that's true, why didn't you tell me at the first time so
>         I wouldn't waster my time on contacting people?
>
>         I'm sure we don't have high value vote people in Unicode
>         organizations from all languages. Better be another choice,
>         like a wiki would be better.
>
>
>         On 5/16/2015 10:08 PM, Shervin Afshar wrote:
>         TC = Technical Committee. Unicode Consortium member
>         organizations are listed at:
>         http://www.unicode.org/consortium/members.html
>
>         So why 4 guest vote won't get the item approved?
>
>         All four of Northern Luri contributors are in the same
>         organization ("guest") and therefore:
>
>         For each value, each organization gets a vote based on the
>         maximum (not cumulative) strength of the votes of its users
>         who voted on that item. That is, even if an organization has
>         10 Vetters voting for an value, if the highest level is
>         regular vetter, then the vote count attributed to the
>         organization as a whole is 4.
>
>         http://cldr.unicode.org/index/process#TOC-Voting-Process
>
>
>         ↪ Shervin
>
>         On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com
>         <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         So why 4 guest vote won't get the item approved?
>
>         What's the "TC"?
>
>         Who are the members of unicode organization?
>
>
>         On 5/12/2015 9:15 PM, John Emmons wrote:
>         Depending on the level of account you have, most things will
>         fall into one of the following buckets:
>
>         Guest accounts receive 1 vote.  Any data item with only 1 vote
>         will stlil go into CLDR as draft="unconfirmed".
>
>         Regular vetter accounts from Unicode member organizations
>         receive 4 votes.  Most locales in CLDR only require 4 votes
>         for the item to be draft="approved" ( which is the meaning
>         when no draft status is specifically mentioned in the data ).
>          The only exceptions to this are the "high visibility"
>         locales, ( examples would include things like German, French,
>         Arabic, or Chinese ).  For these locales, 8 votes are required
>         in order to make a change ( 2 set of eyes from 2 different
>         organizations ).
>
>         TC member accounts receive 20 votes, and are used only to
>         resolve disputes when necessary, and also to vote on high
>         visibility items that require a TC review.
>
>         Regards,
>
>         John C. Emmons
>         Globalization Architect & Unicode CLDR TC Chairman
>         IBM Software Group
>         Internet: emmo at us.ibm.com <mailto:emmo at us.ibm.com>
>
>
>
>
>         From: Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com> <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>
>         To: Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:shervinafshar at gmail.com>
>         Cc: cldr-users at unicode.org <mailto:cldr-users at unicode.org>
>         Date: 05/11/2015 12:20 PM
>         Subject: Re: 4 Votes
>         Sent by: "CLDR-Users" <cldr-users-bounces at unicode.org>
>         <mailto:cldr-users-bounces at unicode.org>
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>         I asked "will" they be removed? and by that I mean will they
>         get into svn repos or not?
>
>         On 5/11/2015 9:43 PM, Shervin Afshar wrote:
>         They are not removed. If I'm not mistaken in interpreting the
>         resolution rules[1], they end up being marked as "provisional".
>
>         [1]: http://cldr.unicode.org/index/process#resolution_procedure
>
>         ↪ Shervin
>
>         On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Mjbmr <mjbmri at gmail.com
>         <mailto:mjbmri at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         If we don't reach 4 votes till the end of ST close time, will
>         they be removed?
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