Hi Marcin and thanks for the reply... 2011/11/10 Marcin Miłkowski <milek...@o2.pl>
> Hi, > > W dniu 2011-11-10 05:37, Louis Suárez-Potts pisze: > > Hi, >> >> >> On 9 November 2011 18:06, Dave Fisher<dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> As many of you may know, per Dave's announcement about a week or so >>>> ago, we >>>> have a staging site of *MOST* (we're still finding areas that need to be >>>> "re-pulled" for one reason or another), of the (old) current OO.o site >>>> at: >>>> >>>> http://ooo-site.apache.org >>>> >>>> Right now, I have a question about the existing "pl" (Polish) site at >>>> >>>> http://pl.openoffice.org/ >>>> >>>> Does anyone on this list know anything about the history of the Polish >>>> site >>>> -- why this group decided to basically make a duplicate of the >>>> OpenOffice.org site but translated? None of the other N-L sites have >>>> gone >>>> to this length so I'm just curious about it. >>>> >>> >> Yes, I know much about it. Its history is complicated and its >> communities even more so. But its current lead (of PL group working on >> OOo, if not entirely only on OOo itself) has simplified things. >> > > It is not a duplicate, but anyway, the point of localized pages is that > they host content that is useful to users that do not speak English. If you > think that the OOo site was useful, then you might consider that > translating some parts of it might be somehow justified ;) > > Anyway, it mostly contains pointers to other places, and some news parts. > There are lists of books and courses about OOo, and some installation > instructions that were relevant when the Polish dictionary was not bundled > with OOo. > > > >>> Is it bigger than the German site? >>> >> >> No. >> >>> >>> >>>> Also, at this point in our migration plans, do we have anyone here who >>>> is >>>> willing to continue to maintain the "pl" site as it stands? >>>> >>> >> I can ask the former lead; cc'd here. He is Marcin Milkowski. >> > > I don't think anyone is interested in maintaining it anymore. The Polish > community moved to LibreOffice and they consider Apache project as a fork. > I didn't resign from the Polish lead position but as there's only me left > and I have no time for doing anything, the Polish project at OOo is > somewhat zombified. > > Cheers, > Marcin > Well OK...I guess we will just check it in to the svn repository as Dave suggests but perhaps not "link" it in to the list of N-L sites. Thanks again for your response. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Mohandas Gandhi
