Re: [m17n] mailinglist (Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-30 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:59:24 +0100 robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, at the same time, this goes for the English documents, too. > > (By the way, really the jakarta PMC is reviewing whole jakarta > > subprojects' websites even written in english?) > this is one of the

Re: [m17n] mailinglist (Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Very good points I think. 1. Legal risk 2. where to start as a first step 1. Sure, I think if the ASF hosts the translated websites, we (sorry: I prefer to use *WE* when indicationg the ASF) have to think about the of translations. I

[m17n] mailinglist (Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-18 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:31:10 +0100 (Subject: Re: [i18n] Internationalization project) robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO a major stumbling block is that a pmc cannot adequately > supervise the committing of patches unless they there are sufficient > fluent

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-18 Thread Robert Simpson
elf to be more enthusiastic, but I really don't see > the point of having the incubator at this moment in time. > > david > - Original Message - > From: "Robert Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:18 PM > Subject: Re: [

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-17 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Joerg Pietschmann wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: I think that "bringing together a group of volunteers who are not coders, and who may not even be experts on one particular project outside its documentation, but who are able to provide translations" would be

RE: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I set up the translated mirror site in my company's host > (jakarta.terra-intl.com), but if there is *completely > consistent infrastracture* in apache.org, I am willing > to put the contents on it. You are asking, I believe, about support for MultiViews. For any given page, P, there could be P

RE: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Joerg Pietschmann: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I think that "bringing together a group of volunteers who are not coders, > > and who may not even be experts on one particular project outside its > > documentation, but who are able to provide translations" would be great, but > > that's not a proje

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Pietschmann
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I think that "bringing together a group of volunteers who are not coders, and who may not even be experts on one particular project outside its documentation, but who are able to provide translations" would be great, but that's not a project. I think one part of the "infrastr

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-16 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:27:06 -0400 (Subject: RE: [i18n] Internationalization project) "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Thom May said, "the commits will have to be performed by individual > projects, a place for translation teams to coordinate, develo

Re: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-16 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
-- On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:27:13 -0400 (Subject: RE: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)) "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking on the l10n making "doc commits" a

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-16 Thread David Reid
> > Fair enough. So basically if you have an innovative idea/concept don't > > bother calling the ASF? > > What is innovative about i18n? Come on David, put your fricken thinking > cap on on stop acting like a baby. All code changes have to be approved > by the project responsible for the code.

Re: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-15 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:23:50 +0200 (Subject: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)) Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the original proposal was purely about i18n technology for java. > But the discussion drifted into tr

RE: [l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I was thinking on the l10n making "doc commits" and "properties > commits", ... themselves, and having means to track *both* the > source document (in the original project cvs) and the translated > documents (???). That would be possible if they were invited to have Commit access to a project's

RE: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
If the purpose is to come up with a common XML schema (for the sake of discussion) and common tools, I don't see it as being a TLP. Each project will need to have its own resources using the common format and tools. Does a DTD/schema and a set of common language bindings/utility libraries warrant

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Fair enough. So basically if you have an innovative idea/concept don't bother calling the ASF? What is innovative about i18n? Come on David, put your fricken thinking cap on on stop acting like a baby. All code changes have to be approved by the project responsible for the code. Likewise for doc

[l10n] localisation infrastructure (was Re: [i18n] Internationalization project)

2003-07-15 Thread Santiago Gala
David N. Welton escribió: "Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Personally, I think that creating a project that consists of people that want to work on other projects is a bit weird. Why don't you just ask for a mailing list? The actual commits will have to be made by the specific proje

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread David Reid
> i18n isn't a code project. It isn't even an documentation project. > In fact, there doesn't even seem to be any reason for it to be a > project. > Why would incubator have anything to do with it? You'll forgive me is I find that a somewhat shallower attitude than I may have expected :( > I was

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread David N. Welton
"Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I think that creating a project that consists of people > that want to work on other projects is a bit weird. Why don't you > just ask for a mailing list? The actual commits will have to be > made by the specific projects, not by an ube

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Thom May
Hi * Roy T. Fielding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > >OK, well I had a discussion last night with some folks from the > >incubator > >PMC and frankly it upset me. It was one of those evenings when you > >realise > >how crap organisations can be and makes you wonder why you bother with > >them > >:

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Roy T. Fielding
OK, well I had a discussion last night with some folks from the incubator PMC and frankly it upset me. It was one of those evenings when you realise how crap organisations can be and makes you wonder why you bother with them :( I really wasn't impressed. i18n isn't a code project. It isn't even

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread David Reid
riginal Message - From: "Robert Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [i18n] Internationalization project > > David - sorry - my intention wasn't to invite people to Jakarta General from here, but to see where it should b

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Robert Simpson wrote, On 15/07/2003 14.18: If this is to possibly become a top-level Apache project, where should it be discussed? In the Incubator we will accept for Top Level projects only those that have a big and solid community around them. For all others, there needs to be a sponsoring PMC

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Robert Simpson
David - sorry - my intention wasn't to invite people to Jakarta General from here, but to see where it should be moved, somewhere "above" JG, as indicated by the discussions there. If this is to possibly become a top-level Apache project, where should it be discussed? (Up to now, I've primari

RE: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
How's about Apache Commons? FWIW, we have some code in James that might be useful for in this area. Yes, the James code is written in Java, but the real offering is the XML resource format, and the operations. --- Noel

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:53:30 +1000 Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:52 am, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > > For me, proposed project whose final target (destination) is TLP itself > > would not fit to the incubator charter. > AFAIK, the incubator is for all new code co

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread David Reid
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:46:21 +0100 > (Subject: Re: [i18n] Internationalization project) > "David Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I really don't think placing such a project anywhere but the incubator makes > > sense... > > For me, propo

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:52 am, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > For me, proposed project whose final target (destination) is TLP itself > would not fit to the incubator charter. AFAIK, the incubator is for all new code coming to Apache whether it is destined for an existing project or it becomes a new Ap

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-15 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:46:21 +0100 (Subject: Re: [i18n] Internationalization project) "David Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really don't think placing such a project anywhere but the incubator makes > sense... For me, proposed project whose final target (desti

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-14 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
:46:21 +0100 (Subject: Re: [i18n] Internationalization project) "David Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert, > > Thanks for cross-porting, but please don't try to invite people to > jakarta-general@ from this list! This list has a wider audience and as any &g

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-14 Thread David Reid
Robert, Thanks for cross-porting, but please don't try to invite people to jakarta-general@ from this list! This list has a wider audience and as any internationalization project will fail in it's objectives unless it is used across the entire of the ASF the community@ list would appear to make mo

Re: [i18n] Internationalization project

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
-1 this would exclude possible interested international folks. We should keep the discussion on a list open to everyone! On 7/14/03 2:21 AM, "Robert Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: Community@Apache.org > > On the Jakarta General list, we've been discussing the possibility of > introdu