>From the proposal I was not able to determine *what it intends to do*.. Besides that, the criteria for helping is IMHO a bit discouraging. Granted its hard to help if you've never been outside of Kansas, but maybe Dorothy darn tootin cares about i18n and wants to make sure that toto can use her application... Perhaps there is something left for her to do even if she only speaks 'merican.
-Andy On 7/5/03 12:16 AM, "Tetsuya Kitahata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Robert, > > > Personally, I am interested in this project, but I am not a *member* > in ASF. (Just a *committer* in jakarta) > How about posting your message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ?? > (subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Maybe, you can find the ASF *member* outside of jakarta. > > Here's a list of the number of *committer* and *member* in ASF umbrella > ( Originally created by Steven Noels) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > Amount of committers: 677 > > "Name","committers","members" > "ant","34","8" > "apr","42","32" > "avalon","80","15" > "cocoon","60","14" > "commons","10","10" > "db","35","9" > "embperl","13","6" > "httpd","145","111" > "incubator","26","12" > "jakarta","314","35" > "james","13","3" > "java","7","1" > "maven","25","4" > "mod_dtcl","9","4" > "modperl","18","7" > "tcl","9","4" > "ws","86","11" > "xml","259","28" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > There are only 35 potential "Mentor"s (I mean, sponsors) in jakarta, as > you can see. If you are confident you can build a powerful community, > IMHO you do not have to stick to seek the Mentor in jakarta. > > I hope this mail might help you to some extent. > > Sincerely, > > -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On 3 Jul 2003 15:23:10 -0000 > (Subject: [i18n] Internationalization subproject sponsor?) > Robert Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> To current members of the Jakarta project: >> >> Is there any current member of the Jakarta project who would be interested in >> sponsoring the entry of the Internationalization subproject into the >> incubator? >> >> The Internationalization subproject would be somewhat different than the >> other Jakarta projects in that there would be two types of contributors: >> >> 1. the (traditional) code contributors >> 2. the language translation contributors >> >> So far, the reponses I have received regarding people would would be >> interested >> in contributing have all been outside Jakarta - mostly language translators. >> Since the Internationalization subproject would most likely fit into the >> Jakarta project, it would help to have a sponsor from within Jakarta, per the >> "Incubation Process" documentation. >> >> The subproject proposal and initial code contribution can be found earlier in >> the Jakarta General mailing list, or here: >> http://www.itoolset.com/i18n/PROPOSAL.html >> >> Without a sponsor, I will probably move the code that was extracted in >> preparation for submission to Apache back into the iToolSet package hierarchy >> and let it pass as an Apache contribution until there is more interest in a >> common Internationalization architecture within Apache itself. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> Robert Simpson >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.terra-intl.com/ > (Apache Jakarta Translation, Japanese) > http://jakarta.terra-intl.com/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
