On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Vitor George<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I'm not disputing that! I just don't really understand what emails or discussions aren't appropriate for either a) a native-language list or b) [email protected] Cheers, Andy > 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 > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
