On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:44:55AM +0000, Christopher Fynn wrote: > Denis Barbier wrote: > > >Out of curiosity, why are people willing to contribute to the CLDR > >project, which has the worst bug tracking system and gives mailing lists > >access only to its members? I for one am not willing to pay $120/year > >in order to be able to follow its development. > > I had no problem joining the CLDR mailing list even though I'm not not a > member of Unicode. If I remember, you just send a "Subscribe CLDR" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mostly the list is used to discuss incoming bugs and > changes.
I did so before going at work this morning, and received the following messages (the name of the person at microsoft.com is obfuscated). This experiment was quite interesting, I am now more convinced that CLDR discussions are not public and will give very few credit onto its data. Denis >From barbier Wed Feb 23 08:35:01 2005 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:35:01 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: subscribe cldr Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:33:41 -0600 (CST) From: Ecartis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ecartis command results: subscribe cldr List context changed to 'cldr' by following command. >> subscribe cldr List is closed-subscription, request has been forwarded to list admins. Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:22:00 -0600 (CST) From: Ecartis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subscribed to list 'cldr' >> (Subscribed to list by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> appsub cldr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 421C31D5:C21.1:pyqe You have been added to list 'cldr' Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:22:00 -0600 (CST) From: Ecartis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Welcome to list 'cldr' Welcome to the Unicode CLDR mailing list. [snip] Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:05:39 -0600 (CST) From: Ecartis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unsubscribed from list 'cldr' >> (Unsubscribed from list by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have been removed from list 'cldr' Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:08:58 -0800 From: "Xxxxx Xxxxxx (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Subscription request to CLDR The [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is an internal distribution list for Unicode Consortium members (http://unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html <http://unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html> ). You may be interested in the public mailing lists at http://unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html <http://unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html> . Standardization organizations seeking liaison memberships with the Unicode Consortium, please contact the Unicode Office for details. http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html (see also http://unicode.org/consortium/join.html <http://unicode.org/consortium/join.html> ). -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
