Verbatim/PRD

Objectives

• lower the barriers to entry (have a path of quick success)
• prevent vandalism
• keep trust as the important factor in giving out permissions
• make sure that the translations are properly licensed

PRD

P1 Registration process

• require an account registration to submit content on verbatim.
  Get the following info:
  • email contact info
  • how you want to be listed on the contributor page(s) (optional)
  • show licensing information and what responsibilities you have in participating in translation work

• link to team pages (https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams) and/or how to get in touch with other contributors for the language
• get back an e-mail message to verify account and reminder of responsibilities

P2 Four levels of permissions

• a) just logged in users that have completed step 1
  • (can submit suggestions)
  • can change admin panel to use as the way to request additional privs for a particular locale
  • can add/modify/remove yourself from the contributors list (option to use user name, or full name or what ever you want) -- ask for full display name and Family name. sort by family name -- as Mozilla credits page does.

• b) new localizers
  • (can review suggestions, translate, commit for a specific locale)

• c) locale module owners
  • (can review suggestions, translate, commit, give "B" permission to other registered users for a specific locale)

• d) admins
  • (for maintainers, like Kadir, or stas; can grant all permission for a locales)

P2 when new permissions are granted

• log the event
• send e-mail to the grantee to inform them of additional responsibility.
• additional responsibility requires no new committer or other agreement.

How recognition works:

• P1: a) Have a central credits page on Verbatim, that lists all (650+) contributors (everyone who has an account gets to be on that page) (acceptable)

or

• b) have an API to retrieve specific contributors to any site, and show that more smaller list as the contributors for the site. (preferred) - need to figure out threshold for this kind of recognition.