On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:54:27PM -0700, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
All this would probably be perfectly harmless except that to some
groups
of people language, it's style, and "correctness" by some definition is
an incredibly important issue either for social, religious or political
reasons.
That is my point and concern which I wanted to discuss with Arabeyes
and I will.
The second problem here is I suspect a cultural difference - while
the
Arabic translators may be used to trading essays with references a lot
of Westerners tend not to bother to read long things but like concise short
arguments.
Right point.
Having read those long posts I do not see why the new translation
tools
are being blamed. They happened to come into existance at the same time
as the problem but that is all. The underlying problem appears to be
that there is a generally recognized project for Arabic translation and
Fedora doesn't currently reflect that - or other similar situations where
there is a clear project.
You are right on that as well.
Is the real solution in the case of translations with an established
team, actively translating Fedora simply to point all new signups
for Arabic to the Arabeyes project ? Or are there groups of Arabic
translators who have problems with the basis of Arabeyes ?
I had my arugment over here, have problem with assigning the
project to Arabeyes after we reach a point where we can
talk. There are another group of ppl that if they did not
choose to talk here I think Arabeyes deserve to get it
assigned. Sarah said she will setup ar mailing list, and
having herself the maintainer till the group agree and
elect someone. I would say if there is no one else
object here (at least come forward and announce objection),
and with the last emails I had with Mr. Elzubeir as we reached
a point where we can work things out, so if there is no
other one choose to discuss publicly his objection, I think
Arabeyes should be maintaing it.
Thanks
Sherif