I'm just arriving in this list but I strongly agree about having a specific list for i18n issues. there is a lot of work to be done in several fronts and the information about it is mostly sparse.
For a country where the adoption of English is very low, like Brazil, translating is a essential thing to grow the number of volunteers. Vitor On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð > Bjarmason<[email protected]> wrote: > > > And finally, is this the preferred mailing list to talk about i18n > > issues? Maybe we should have some forum especially for this as > > interest in matters that concern i18n in rails are probably pretty > > orthogonal to the general concerns of -dev. And people who are just > > interested in translating the website to their language are thus > > unlikely to sign up. > > I'd say it's fine for now. It's unclear how big a deal translations > are going to be in the medium term - the interface of > openstreetmap.org has been pretty stable over the last few years and > most translation work so far has been catching up with what we have > already rather than aiming for a moving target. And anything other > than "what's this in my language" *is* a topic for the dev list. > > If there's still lots of translation stuff needing discussed in a few > months time, then maybe we would be better off with a separate list. > But I'd say it's fine here for now. > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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