on Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:55:07AM +1000, Pascal Hakim insinuated: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:21:03PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > does debian have a list-wide policy on languages? or should each > > list decide its own? if the latter, i guess this is another issue > > that's open to debate, and that we should decide soon ... > > We do, but I don't think it is anywhere else but inside the > listmasters' heads. We actually normally start from the other end. > We'll make a debian-user-$language list, which is used for user > stuff, as well as translations, development, and announces. If at > some point, it looks like there is a fair bit of traffic on the > list, we create a new one. [...] > From a practical point of view, you are better off having bigger > lists as it's easier to build momentum that way. Smaller lists have > a harder time reaching a certain critical mass and getting things > accomplished, while people feel much better about posting on a list > where there's lots happening already.
cool, i can see that. so, are you advocating that this be a
multilingual list?
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