[Mailman-Developers] Internationalization

[John Viega]

Guys,

I disagree with Ken on the prioritization of internationalization.
The big problem is someone needs to rework parts of the software so
that all interesting text reads from a file, or something like that.
If anyone wants to take on the task, and submit patches, I'd rather
see it get integrated sooner rather than later.  Perhaps it's time to
keep 2 development trees, a beta series that will soon become 1.0 and
only gets bug fixes + documentation + "critical" features, and an
alpha series that will eventually become 1.1...  Anyway, if you want
to do the work, we'll figure out how to integrate it so that people
can use it ASAP.

John



On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:11:29PM +0100, Tomas Fasth wrote:
> Harald,
> I did brought this up a while ago (Sept. 4), and there was a response from
> Ken Manheimer. He explained that because the core developers currently are
> trying to stablize a 1.0 release the issue of internationalization (i18n) is
> not currently on the priority list.
> I was about to point you to the archives, but couldn't find anything before
> Oct 2. Instead I'll send you a copy in private, don't want to duplicate it
> on this list.
> 
> Like you I am prepared to do a translation (in my case Swedish).
> I did try a translation of the human presentation text in the 1.0b5 release,
> but gave up after a while when I realized it got a little bit too
> complicated with too many modules involved.
> In order to achieve i18n of mailman, it definitely involves some
> architectural considerations and (at least) partial change of the code.
> There seem to exist ideas in the heads of the core developers on how to
> achieve i18n in mailman. But we might have to give them some time and bring
> this up again later.
> 
> Tomas
> 
> 
> 
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