2007/5/12, Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
- I don't know why we would move i18n stuff out of extra. The "default is english, would take a lot of load away" seems arrogant, at best.
That was my gut reaction too. However, I know nothing about how this pans out, being a native english speaker... still, it might be worthwhile to push some of it to community and allow actual speakers of said language to maintain them, so that we aren't maintaining packages no one uses (like german, we have no german users at all, heh).
Maybe we should make a poll or something on what languages our user speak and which localized packages are actually required. Most packages provide gettext localizations, but some (kde, koffice, openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, ...) need extra packages.
I'd like to have all available localized packages maintained in the same way. Splitting them by "popularity" is a bad idea IMO. About community and access rights - I think most (if not all) will need access there because many of their favourite packages will be moved there, and while we're moving to shared maintainership philosophy - it's always better if more people who care about given package can update it. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)