I am thinking about to open up a cocoon/-lenya site in Spain.
There is a growing community and the majority wants to communicate in spanish.
Does anybody knows what the ASF policy for international branches is (Greg as chairman)?
I'm not sure whether there is a policy for "international branches", as I don't understand the concept per se.
If you just mean a Spanish language version of the Lenya website (i.e. providing Spanish translation), or having language-specific mailing lists, all this has been done before, and is just a matter of asking to the infrastructure team. The incubating Spamassassin project has German mailing lists, for example.
The important thing here is oversight: making sure the PMC is able to follow what is going on.
Can it be a direct spin-off of e.g. lenya (like e.g. http://www.xaraya.com/ and http://es.xaraya.com/)?
Again, I wouldn't call this a "spin-off", as this presumably shouldn't be a fork or some area where development and community focus diverges from the original (English) one. It's just a matter of translation, and providing language-specific discussion lists, no?
Could it be then hosted like http://es.cocoon.apache.org/lenya/ or http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/es/?
I don't see any problem with having a Lenya committer posting Spanish pages in the Lenya webspace.
Just make sure you don't disperse an already small community into two smaller ones.
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