On 11 December 2011 00:13, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Ross Gardler > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >> On 11 December 2011 00:02, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Louis R Suárez-Potts <lo...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >> >> ... >> >>>> Now to the present issue. I've written that I would rather focus here, in >>>> Apache land, on coding. But that only opens the door, as it were, to >>>> establishing the very successful Native Language modules either in another >>>> wing of Apache (??) or outside the Apache frame but corresponding to it, >>>> so that QA, a key element of the NL projects, for instance, could be tied >>>> in. Licenses, etc., would have to be harmonised. And I'd also suggest >>>> using a simpler work medium, such as wikis. >>>> >>>> I think some of this is already going on but it is not clear to me *what* >>>> is going on or where. I'm not alone. I have received several pings on this >>>> very question, and I'd like to move on it. >>>> >>> >>> >>> I can see several models that could work: >> >> All good options... >> >>> You hint at another option. I'm not sure it would work, but let's >>> list it for sake of argument: >>> >>> 4. NL projects are individually proposed as their own podlings. Their >>> charter would be for them to produce localizations of AOO. But they >>> would be autonomous PMC's within Apache, with their own website, >>> mailing lists, etc. >> >> Why do you feel this would this not work? >> > > You have many Gaelic or Vietnamese-speaking mentors?
Fair point, although it is reasonable to expect that many of the people involved will be bi-lingual at least (otherwise how can they translate). Option 4 should not be ruled out (and you didn't do so), I was just wondering what the source of your reservations was. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
