On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/11/13 8:55 PM, Yaron Shahrabani wrote: >> Hey Itzik! >> This is a total waste of your time. >> I personally prefer contributing to LibreOffice which is currently 100%, >> OpenOffice lacks proper Hebrew support, translating the system will allow >> the developers to keep ignoring the Hebrew issues. > > @Yaron, I really don't know what you are trying to do here. If you > personally prefer to work on LibreOffice it's fine, it's your decision. > But I think by courtesy and respect to other open source projects you > shouldn't try to discriminate other projects. It shed really a very bad > view on you personally your character and indirect on the other project > that you personally prefer. > > We here in the OpenOffice project respect other projects and are fair > enough to let people/volunteers decide on their own. >
+1 I'd also draw our attention to #2 on our posted list conduct guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html -Rob > @Itzik, welcome at Apache OpenOffice and we appreciate that you are > interested to help us with the translation into Hebrew. Some other > people gave you already some further information how to start. > > You should keep in mind that OpenOffice is very popular and we have > since April last year more than 35 million downloads and the number is > growing quite fast with ~1 million per month. I personally take my > motivation out if this fact that I spent my time and my energy in such a > popular project used by millions of users all over the world. > > You can help us to improve OpenOffice for Hebrew and can help to make it > better for all. We need native speaking people that help us to identify > problems. And of course we need an active translation community because > we only release languages where we see an active community behind. > > > Juergen > >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Yaron Shahrabani >> >> <Hebrew translator> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Itzik Samara >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> i would like to translate the Open Office to Hebrew as i heard u need >>> volunteers for this.. >>> please send me info how can i contribute? >>> >> >
