On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 18:58 +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Il 24/04/2012 16:28, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > > On Tuesday, 24. April 2012 at 21:56, drew wrote: > >> Why not join with the ODFAuthours folks and work together - this old > >> style of NL groups being a separate group - that was not really the best > >> way IMO for many things in the old OpenOffice.org. > > Oh sure, I wasn't in any way advocating segregation of NL projects. > Just, in this very specific case, the ODFAuthors guide have a very > well-defined and reasonable workflow: they are written in English first, > and once stable they are translated into other languages. > > >> This is gone now, it is a non-profit organization at ASF, there is no > >> reason to keep referring to the Italian group as a separate 'we' as you > >> do in your email. > > No, that "we" is not separate at all: indeed, Italian volunteers who > have the needed language skills and time availability already > participated in creating the original English version of the ODFAuthors > guides. I'm sorry if my phrasing gave a different picture. > > >> Why not work so a document starts in Italian and is translated to > >> English, or Japanse or Swazi > > Well, in this case it makes a lot of sense to start with an English > version and then localize it in multiple languages. It's simply the most > efficient way in this case. > > > every contribution is helpful and welcome, independent of what it is. > > We are in release mode now so I understand that bandwidth is limited, > but indeed it is a pity that we still have volunteers in the pipeline; > we (and this "we" refers to current commiters, and it includes me of > course) should be more responsive in approving new committers and give > them all the needed permissions to contribute effectively. > > Regards,
Hi Andrea. Well I was just much to curt in my previous email - I would like to come back to this in a general way (maybe a strategic goals type discussion) , but as you say not till after the release is done and as part of the conversation regarding the merge of features from Symphony perhaps. Best wishes, //drew
