Hey, Blame me for starting this thread, but I shut up a long time ago. I was just trying to understand what the person wanted to ask. But now I added to the useless chatter.
David 2009/8/28 Ian Bambury <[email protected]>: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
