On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:20:40PM +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > > Another thing that I'd like to mention is the language. This list is > > in English, and it would be good if we can respect that. I wouldn't > > like to start reading emails in German or Chineese (I don't have any > > problem with those languages, but I don't understand a word :P ) > > Thanks for raising this Manuel > > Though I am almost monolingual in English, I still support the idea of list > posts being in the language that the writer is most confident. Some may not > have the confidence to write in a list's main language or to check that the > Google Translate makes sense. Their contribution still is very important. > > I googled it and found: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Use_the_common_language > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/editplus/message/5510 > > The first supports the main language, the discussion in the second supports > both a main language and foreign language. > > I would encourage those posting in a foreign language to include a Google > Translate in the main language. I am not sure though, which should come first.
Generally speaking, sugar-devel@ might be treated as a pure technical channel and posting in non-en can considered in the same way as adding comments to the source code (the most common practices is that people must not comment/name-variables in non-en). But I guess sugar-devel@ is not such thing (maybe original list on @laptop.org was, but current sugar-devel@ is not). And I agree that having one common resource (for more technical discussions than on ieap@) is more important than keeping it clear from non-main-lang posts. In any case, having suggested main language should be pretty enough (if people can post in main language, they do). Besides, I'm sure that creating more rules for humans is less useful way than let technology do underneath work to avoid having human rules, except most natural ones that don't need any explicit publishing. In other words, if there are no many non-en posts, it is np for writers/readers to use aside translation tools. Otherwise, it is the right moment to start thinking how technology can solve this issue, e.g., patch ML software to auto add translation link to any non-main-lang posts, or, [at the en] add Web UI for ML (e.g., google groups have a checkbox to translate posts to your language). -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel