Hi Ian, It *is* an English language forum. But I agree with you that there hasn't been a problem so far (I'm guessing that is your thought too).
There are other GWT forums for different languages albeit with very few members. Given that this is an English language forum, I don't think it is too much to ask that people try English first. If I went to a Japanese forum and bombed it with English posts it wouldn't seem unreasonable to be asked to try Japanese first. Not that one thread is a bombing, however. People who subscribe here must have some grasp of English (how much use would all these messages be if you didn't?) so a basic summary of why the rest of the post is in some other language doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Nicknames on the other and should (IMNSHO) be allowed in any alphabet - you shouldn't have to change it every time you post to a different language group. I've been here since 2006 and there have only been a few messages in other languages and this has been the first time there has been a comment. I think if we all shut up, it will all fade away. That said, I'm now going to click 'Send' ;-) Ian http://examples.roughian.com 2009/8/27 Ian Petersen <[email protected]> > > 2009/8/27 Sumit Chandel <[email protected]>: > > However, I have updated the > > GWT Discussion Group Charter to reflect a language policy of posting in > > English first, and then resorting to native language if that fails. This > > should at least make it so that the message subjects for initial posts > are > > in English. Hopefully this will lead to keeping the group maximally > useful, > > both for English and non-English speakers. > > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/web/gwt-discussion-group-charter > > I think that's an unfortunate change that, in my eyes, contradicts the > goal of keeping the forum friendly. > > I'm not really an active member of this community anymore, so I'm not > going to belabour this point, I just felt I should raise the issue > rather than letting it slide. > > Ian > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
