Re: Drupal as candidate to be challenged

[Emanuele Aina <faina mail tiscali it>]

Quim Gil dubitò:

> Still unconvinced by the division of contents translated/created.

The idea behind leaving them separate is to avoid the proliferation of 
gnome.cl, gnomefr.org, gnome-de.org, gnome.or.kr and others (those are 
from a quick google search).

Those sites ends up in $LANG.gnome.org, while keeping wgo more uniform.

> What are the contents specific to Italian that won't fit in the
> structure of gnome.org localised to Italian? -
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb#head-414ca48c4650bea820c5caabf3a9c7bac9fc7878

Well, we (Italian translators group) didn't make a lot of use of 
it.gnome.org entirely... :(

Other groups (see above) have found something to put.
Maybe this is a problem due to the current infrastructure: it's very 
likely that those sites are being run from enthusiastic users, not by 
the localization teams, so they were blocked by the complexity of the 
infrastructure (CVS, SSH, etc).
With the reorganization these problem will go away, so maybe they can be 
"reabsorbed"... :)

> Take the Contact page as an example. Are we going to translate literally
> the page into Italian and then have another contact page under
> it.gnome.org with the specific contacts for Italy? Italian speaking
> users would prefer to have only one contact page, prioritising the
> Italian contacts and then the general.
>
> Another example: if I visit http://mail.gnome.org in Italian I will
> possibly prefer to find something like
> http://it.gnome.org/resources/mailing-lists.php than a literal
> translation of the English version.

Those, perhaps, will be handled better by keeping all the contacts and 
mailing lists toghether, and render the pages differently by language.


To me, it seems that the biggest benefit from the separation is 
organizational for the language teams, but with a little of 
infrastructure putting all togheter will not be a big problem.

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