Re: [native-lang] Position of Native-Lang and other non-coding parts of the communty [was: New template project]

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Clytie wrote:

> I've been surprised not to see frequent mails on this or the dev@l10n 
> list, requesting translations of modules, webpages, documentation, wiki 

OOo suffers from having _too_ many mailing lists. The last time I 
counted, there were over a hundred mailing lists.  As a result, requests 
for the things you mention can be scattered over all of them.

> little or no discussion of l10n bugs and the continual effort to fix them.

That is due to one of several things:
* They are discussed and (maybe) fixed on a specific list of the NLP 
that is affected by the specific bug;
* They are discussed on one of the specific developer lists;
* They are discussed in issuezilla;
* They are ignored;
* The gatekeepers for Issuezilla don't have a clue about history, 
geography, writing systems, languages, or anthropology, and hence close 
issues because of their ignorance in those subjects;

>  but we don't seem to be talking to each other very much. 

Historically, every time a slightly different aspect of project 
management has come up, a new list has been created for it. Which means 
that the only communication that happens, is between people who are 
subscribed to the same list.  If people aren't subscribed to a list, 
they have lost the ability to even marginally track what is going 
elsewhere in the project.

xan

jonathon
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