After considering the current situation and the international goal of Weex, I'd like to answer Chinese question both in English and Chinese with the following template. I will give responses with the following template for one month or more, after that maybe we will have a better idea of the language problem.
感谢你的反馈，Weex目前是隶属于Apache Software Foundation的项目，因此在Gtihub渠道我们鼓励使用英文反馈问题。下面我将使用Google Trasnlate将你的问题翻译成英语，并以英语回答。 Question description here Answer The question here. Best Regards, YorkShen 申远 Jan Piotrowski <[email protected]> 于2019年2月22日周五 下午9:48写道： > After further thinking about it I think I agree with Myrle: > If you can answer a Chinese issue in Chinese, just do so. > If you want, you can translate both question and answer to English > manually or automatically as well. > I don't read any Chinese, so I would definitely have to translate to > English and then write my response in English. As a service (and > respect) to the user I then also might translate my response to > Chinese automatically and post that as well. > > Real rules on languages will probably only be required for formal > discussions and votes here on the mailing list. > > -J > > Am Fr., 22. Feb. 2019 um 09:38 Uhr schrieb Willem Jiang > <[email protected]>: > > > > It may relate to audience which we are target. If the target audience > > doesn't speak English it could be challenge for him to get the answer > > in English. It's natural to fill strange if you just see a bunch of > > Chinese sitting together using their unfluent English talk to each > > other. > > > > But as you may not know there could be other people who try to find > > information in the mailing list by using the search engine. As an > > apache project, there are lots of potential users who speak English, > > using English to answer the question could help them to understand the > > who pictures more easily. > > > > Most of Chinese developer can read and write English document, as we > > spend more than 6 years to study English. I don't think it could be a > > blocker for us to build the community by answering the question in > > English. But we need to keep in mind that the discussion we have is > > not just for us, it's could for the community to catch up later. > > > > FYI, there are some discussions[1] years ago about using IM (such as > > QQ and WeChat) and Chinese, you may take a look at them. > > > > [1] > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg57192.html > > > > Willem Jiang > > > > Twitter: willemjiang > > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 4:05 PM 申远 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I saw some people using Google Translate to translate the question, > > > > then repost the question in English before answering. That makes it > > > > clear(er), that English is the preferred language and also allows > > > > people like me to participate. > > > > > > > > > I used to paste the result of Google Translate from Chinese question to > > > English, then answer it in English, until I realized that the users who > > > post the question may not understand my answer in English, which > doesn't > > > fulfill the goal of helping user at all. Besides, from our users' > point, > > > choosing a language the original user may not understand by > deliberately > > > may be a arrogant behavior. > > > > > > Maybe I should answer Chinese Question with English and then Google > > > translate back to English, which is still a little wired and > complicated > > > though. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > YorkShen > > > > > > 申远 > > > > > > > > > Willem Jiang <[email protected]> 于2019年2月22日周五 上午10:48写道： > > > > > > > I think using the English to discuss is consider for more audiences > > > > across the world, with the help of translator service it's not big > > > > challenge for the average chinese developer to get involved. > > > > We could set up a rule in the mailing list or gitter to discuss the > > > > question in English. From my experience it's a big first step to > build > > > > the internationalized community. > > > > > > > > Willem Jiang > > > > > > > > Twitter: willemjiang > > > > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:21 PM 申远 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > As we all know, there are many users of Weex are Chinese. > > > > > > > > > > As a result, there are many user expresses their opinion using > Chinese in > > > > > Github <https://github.com/apache/incubator-weex/issues>. What > should > > > > we do > > > > > under this situation? > > > > > > > > > > 1. Answering their question with English, which is wired as > original post > > > > > is Chinese. Moreover, it may be a little arrogant as answering > Chinese > > > > > question with English shows the person written the answer > understand > > > > > Chinese but somehow choose a language(English) deliberately the > original > > > > > poster may not understand. > > > > > > > > > > 2. Answering questions with Chinese, which is a easy work for me > and > > > > other > > > > > Chinese users. But other users that who doesn't speak Chinese will > have a > > > > > difficult time to understand what is happening here. > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > YorkShen > > > > > > > > > > 申远 > > > > >
