Re: International apache branches
On 11 May 2004, at 01:16, Scherler, Thorsten wrote: I am thinking about to open up a cocoon/-lenya site in Spain. There is a growing community and the majority wants to communicate in spanish. Does anybody knows what the ASF policy for international branches is (Greg as chairman)? I'm not sure whether there is a policy for "international branches", as I don't understand the concept per se. If you just mean a Spanish language version of the Lenya website (i.e. providing Spanish translation), or having language-specific mailing lists, all this has been done before, and is just a matter of asking to the infrastructure team. The incubating Spamassassin project has German mailing lists, for example. The important thing here is oversight: making sure the PMC is able to follow what is going on. Can it be a direct spin-off of e.g. lenya (like e.g. http://www.xaraya.com/ and http://es.xaraya.com/)? Again, I wouldn't call this a "spin-off", as this presumably shouldn't be a fork or some area where development and community focus diverges from the original (English) one. It's just a matter of translation, and providing language-specific discussion lists, no? Could it be then hosted like http://es.cocoon.apache.org/lenya/ or http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/es/? I don't see any problem with having a Lenya committer posting Spanish pages in the Lenya webspace. Just make sure you don't disperse an already small community into two smaller ones. -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XMLAn Orixo Member Read my weblog athttp://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.orgstevenn at apache.org
Re: International apache branches
Scherler, Thorsten wrote: > Hello Greg, cocoon devs, forrest devs, lenya devs. > > I am thinking about to open up a cocoon/-lenya site in Spain. > There is a growing community and the majority wants to communicate in > spanish. That could be done via local user groups, then the multilingual people would bring the ideas into the Apache project communities to be discussed and implemented. We could not fragment or replicate our actual projects. > Does anybody knows what the ASF policy for international branches is > (Greg as chairman)? I do not know - that question would need to be asked in a different forum, i.e. not at this project level. I expect that the short answer is no. Perhaps ask at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How forrest deals with i18n? We have people at forrest-dev interested in extending Forrest's internationalization abilities. Please join us. --David > Any help, input, links or thoughts are highly welcome. > > King regards > Thorsten
International apache branches
Hello Greg, cocoon devs, forrest devs, lenya devs. I am thinking about to open up a cocoon/-lenya site in Spain. There is a growing community and the majority wants to communicate in spanish. Does anybody knows what the ASF policy for international branches is (Greg as chairman)? Can it be a direct spin-off of e.g. lenya (like e.g. http://www.xaraya.com/ and http://es.xaraya.com/)? Could it be then hosted like http://es.cocoon.apache.org/lenya/ or http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/es/? How forrest deals with i18n? Any help, input, links or thoughts are highly welcome. King regards Thorsten -- Thorsten Scherler Spain <@mail> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <@cocoon-WIKI> http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Scherler
