On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 05:52, Bartosz Sawicki wrote:
We had talked before about moving Mailman's i18n work to the Translation Project[1], and I think now's the perfect time to revisit that. I don't have any direct experience with TP, so first, I'm wondering who out there has, and what you think about it.
I have no experience with TP (even if I'm enlisted in their site) and I'm neutral on this. I even signed their disclaimer. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gnutra/HTML/disclaim.html
So you are lucky, I don't sign and send this disclaimer, so propably i'll have to wait more than month to be registered. I think that the most of Mailman translators are in the same situation.
I would try to arrange with Francois so that we could import all our existing po files, and allow a grace period on the disclaimer. Truth be told, I should be more diligent about getting translators to sign such disclaimers anyway. I definitely wouldn't want that to hold up progress, so I'd opt for a grace period of say 3 months.
TP is great, but especially for projects that don't have own i18n teams. They get chance to be translated into many languages. Mailman already has been translated, so i'm wondering if joining TP will make more mess that this is worth.
On other hand, Mailman translators can make TP stronger. Stronger language teams can translate more GNU software, and that sounds nice.
Conclusion: I think, that merging Mailman translations with TP is better for TP than for Mailman. Personally, Mailman is closer for me, so I'm neutral :)
Thanks for the feedback. So far, it sounds like a -0 for moving to TP. -Barry