Hi, We also want Japanese user mailing list like Chinese user mailing list. How do we create?
--Kimi -----Original Message----- From: Edison Su [mailto:edison...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:42 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org; cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org Subject: CloudStack Chinese user mailing list Glad to announce that CloudStack Chinese user mailing list is created, just few minutes ago. To subscribe: please send email to cloudstack-users-cn-subscr...@incubator.apache.org. BTW, it's Mandarin only though, maybe a little bit Cantonese is OK...:) > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:45 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we use other language here? > > 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
