On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Arien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> The Django community aggregator includes non-English posts, which are >>> unfortunately pure noise for those of us who don't understand other >>> languages. Can we either restrict the aggregator to English posts, or >>> at least create sub-feeds for English and non-English posts? >>> >>> I don't mean to tread on the toes of those making non-English posts, >>> but English is the lingua franca of most open-source development >>> (including Django); non-English posts are of dubious usefulness to the >>> Django community at-large. [...] >> >> -0 on the general idea and that last sentence is plain false: >> >> http://www.jacobian.org/writing/2008/jan/30/arc/ > > Is it? The one language Django developers *around the world* are most > likely to have *in common* is ... English. The language used in > common for open-source developers from Brazil to Bulgaria is ... > English. I'm *not* saying Django shouldn't support local languages or > Unicode (which was the point of contention in that post)! I'm saying > that *for the community as a whole*, English is how we all communicate > with one another, and that an aggregator for that community at-large > should contain English posts.
The non-English posts are clearly useful to the Django community as a whole, as it appears that the majority of its members don't speak English as their native tongue. > Having *only* a [language-agnostic] firehose feed, as we do now, is a problem. Why? Arien --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
