On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Sheng Yang <sh...@yasker.org> wrote: > 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
Sheng, or Edison - feel free to create a ticket for INFRA at issues.apache.org to create a Chinese language user mailing list. --David
