On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > The meeting last evening was mostly fruitful. There were 4 major points > that came through: > > 1) 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. > 2) 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. > 3) 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... > 4) 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