On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
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
I like centos.org and *.centos.org to be english content, with non-english at *.centos.org/xx and centos.org/xx. That's leaves * open for infrastructure issues - certificates, servers, odd or legacy software, etc.
- 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.
Good.
- 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.
Yes, reasonable. A tangent which could apply here, is if there can be, or needs to be, the capability of a sort of language-wheel for *contributed* content. The example could be a wiki page that userA creates in english, then userB translates to *.centos.org/xB in his/her language... really more of a procedural/workflow item, and not tied to software capabilities though, now that I read it back. [3a]
OTOH, forums are another matter. I see most implement multi-lang as sections/categories within the single "forum" site, which of course is contrary to 1. above, and the forum model is not conducive to my language-wheel idea. But then, for this and other reasons, I'm not fond of forums anyway...
- 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.
Maybe something like http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/Feedback or whatever is chosen... no matter to me.
jerry
[3a] fr | en / \ de es