On 12 September 2011 10:27, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 September 2011 23:19, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> With my mentor hat on I have no objection as long as it is clear that no >> decisions about the project in general can be made on this list. All >> decisions must be made here. >> > > Hi Ross, just to clarify what you mean by project in general. I assume you > mean things like direction of the code development and intellectual > property, rather than things like language translations, localisation and > marketing?
Yes, that is correct. > So eg they could make a decision to have a marketing conference > in Japan or to correct say a translation error in a dictionary. In the > latter case it would still require a committer to commit and have accepted > the revision submitted to the main project. I'm just trying to understand > the scope to the types of restrictions that are likely to apply. There is no fixed rule here. In practice no other ASF project has a "dev" list in any language other than English as the accepted guideline is that only English is allowed. Personally I don't think this is workable in OOo. What we need to do is, as you say "understand the scope to the types of restrictions that are likely to apply". As a starting point I would say that if a decision on the jp list affects those in other countries (any other country) then that decision needs to be made on the core English language list. Therefore the jp list would bring a proposal here. Naturally this means the jp list needs to be managed by people willing and able to communicate the jp intentions in English. I propose that the PPMC will hold those individuals accountable as well as recognising them for their work. If a decision affects only the JP community then there is no need to make a proposal here, but we should expect to be informed of any important activities. Of course the JP community will still have to respect things like the trademark policy of the foundation. These items should therefore also be handled on the English list (no objection to discussing in Japanese first and making recommendations to this list). [ASIDE] PPMC members should note that umbrella projects are not allowed in the ASF. I'll not go into detail here at this time, I'll do that soon in another thread. However, I just want to flag that this is the first step in creating an umbrella project out of OOo. However, at this point I think it is best to proceed as proposed in this thread, I suspect this will be the first of many such requirements.
