On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:29 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: >> On 06/19/2012 02:50 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote: >>> >>> On 06/19/2012 05:43 AM, Lu Heng wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> One very interesting question raised by my Chinese tech today, can we >>>> use Chinese in the mailling list. >>>> >>>> 1. Seems there is no language restriction about in the mailling list, >>>> and all language should be equal. >>>> >>>> 2. As I read and touched these days in the mailling list, a lot guy >>>> from crixi developing CS are in fact Chinese. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts? >>>> >>> >>> If this is needed then we should have a language specific list. However, >>> from a development point of view that'll put a big dent into >>> collaboration. >> >> >> I'd see a cloudstack-users-cn mailinglist earlier then a Chinese developer >> list. >> >> My €0,02 says we should stick to English on the development list to keep >> collaboration consistent. English isn't my native language either, but it >> seems to be accepted as the language in software development? >> >> As far as I know English is harder to learn for Chinese people due to the >> huge language differences. I wouldn't vote against a Chinese development >> list, but I wouldn't endorse it either, due to the above reasons. >> >> Wido >> >>> >>> My $0.02 >>> Robert >>> >> > > Generally a project uses a single language for development purposes > and while there is no technical barrier, splitting up the developer > community by language seems more deleterious than beneficial. > > This is further complicated by the fact that decisions have to be made > on the mailing list - which then begs the question - where can binding > decisions be made? In Apache projects that is supposed to happen on > the -dev list. However with two -dev lists that becomes a bit more > difficult. > > So my personal take on the matter: > We have a number of developers for whom English is not their native > tongue - but it remains a common tongue for us. I'd certainly have no > objection to language-specific user mailing lists. But missing entire > development conversations, strikes me as a bad thing. > > Thoughts, comments, flames?
Agree. There should be no knowledge barrier between developers. And I am quite believe in English education in China. Again, don't worry about grammar or misspell etc. And localized user mailing is necessary I think. --Sheng > > --David
