On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Hi,
The meeting last evening was mostly fruitful. There were 4 major points that came through:
- Do we want the language specific content to go in as
<lang>.centos.org with forums and a small portal behind each one of those ( like fr.centos.org ) - or is it more userfriendly to have the resources abstracted out and each language specific content being marked in different namespace from the english content - eg. wiki.centos.org and wiki.centos.org/es . This would imply a forums.centos.org comes up and the spanish specific content is held at forums.centos.org/es
- A unified login setup is considered fairly high value, so one
username/password would work across all the various *.centos.org sites. There are a few different ways to achieve this, however only when the user facing decisions are made will we look into this so as to not waste time with options that are not usable or will not be usable in the final setup.
1 and 2 are easily done using Drupal. I think that either options have their benefits and we are used to encounter both scenarios in a dozen of websites over there.
For users that know the direct site, they will remember the direct link to the language specify website. For others, the entry point will be www.centos.org that will have a list of language specific websites or even could redirect the user to the properly website based on users' web browser language settings. For the last option, should be default to all language specific websites have a drop-down list containing all language specific websites available.
- We want to ideally only have one instance of any bit of software, and
have that support the languages natively. If there isnt any support for multiple languages - consider what is involved in bringing that language support in.
Again, Drupal has all the resources and modules to all this internationalization contents. Users are first redirect to the website based on the browser settings and could set the preferred language into their profile.
For news and most of the contents, the same content have place for all the necessary translations, defaulting to english when the translation is not ready. It seem to me excellent for the primary page, news and general contents. For forums I have tested nothing yet.
- Most of the people who attended the talk where people who dont
themselves either use the forums or know much about them and how they are used - so the idea came up to put together a set of questions, and then have the existing forum users and list users provide some feedback. Exactly what these questions need to be, is something that needs working on. A wiki page will get setup and we can all put in suggestions.
I have done little use of the forums.
During the meeting it was agreed that we would discuss these points here in the lists so as to get some traction around them. And then have another 45 min chat[1] in a few weeks time to recap on development and also to finalise what questions need to be in the questionnaire.
I think I was in [1] :)
- KB
[1]: so if you are 40 min late, dont be surprised if everyone else leaves after 5 minutes :) _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel