Team, I tweeted twice and emailed Janne three days ago, no response from
him, but we didn't get an update on Finnish. I'd like to retire it from
our distribution so we're not perpetually seeing a warning message in
our build for it. Most Finns, like Janne presently does, are going to
use English anyway so everyone around the world can understand their
Wiki. As it's in the source control archives, we can always resurrect
it relatively quickly if we get a complaint, providing the complainant
translates the missing strings for us. :)
My view, if somebody on the team from country X wants to translate
JSPWiki into Xese, that's fine, but once they leave the project, if it's
a minor language like Lithuanian or Latvian or Finnish we look like
idiots tweeting for translation help. The maintenance of too many
languages also constrains us, as it makes it more difficult to change
screens and the text on them.
We could also retire Russian, as it's missing a handful of strings as
well, but Russian has about 30 times as many speakers as Finnish (155
million vs. 5 million) so I don't personally mind its retention even if
we get warning messages for it.
Glen
- retire Finnish? Glen Mazza
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