Jim,
One of my own tasks is to push forward with the "open source" movement of
OpenSRS and do exactly what you're talking about here - leverage outside
developers and our own efforts to maximize everyone's potential. I just
have to get some traction - you WILL see things happening in the coming
months.
As for being vague with timelines - one thing I've personally learned over
the past year and a half with OpenSRS is we can't really say dates (or
even the month) in many cases, because timelines slip inevitably.
Sometimes, I don't personally know the timelines (heck, I can't know
everything) so I just say what I know - we're working on XXX, and it's
coming.
I'll try to keep up and keep you all posted.
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jim McAtee wrote:
> Explain again, where you guys came up with the "open" part of "OpenSRS"?
> Was that coined by some overeager intern in your marketing department?
> You're working internally (not that anyone would know - we only get cryptic
> "just you wait and see" progress reports) on things that outside developers
> are also working on. Why in the world don't you get in touch and work on
> this together?
>
> Not being a developer, I'm not sure what the model for managing such open
> source projects might be, but it would seem that having Tucows project
> managers working with eager outside developers on sorely needed enhancements
> would work in everybody's favor.
>
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jorge Otero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Translations (was RE: Suggested New Transfer Management
> Message)
>
>
> > Jorge,
> >
> > Making the client code and system messages 'translatable' (or at least
> > allow you to pick from a list) is in progress, but it's a major project.
> > Timelines are in the many of months (currently), so you won't find your
> > work have to go to waste too soon ;)
> >
> > Charles Daminato
> > TUCOWS Product Manager
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Jorge Otero wrote:
> >
> > > "Ken Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >However, language
> > > >issues are important, and as you may have seen, a lot of attention has
> been
> > > >paid to translating OpenSRS recently. I'll look into other language
> versions
> > > >of the transfer messages to see whether it's an option or not (it
> should
> > > >be). After that, it's probably just a flag in the RWI and you'd be on
> your
> > > >way.
> > >
> > > Do you mean that after the long, painful translation process I _just_
> > > finished, you're going to release a multi-lingual client code? Then I
> don't
> > > know if I should be jumping with joy or jumping out of the window! :)
> > >
> > > Can you update me on the status of translations or multi-lingual
> versions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jorge
>
>
