Re: [Fwd: Re: status of the DDTP project?]
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
We have completely abandoned the DDTP effort now, as far as I am
aware. Nicolas Bertolissio made several contributions to the code in
the past, up to end 2003. I'm not sure whether he still contributes to
it.
IMHO it is a real shame that one part of the i18n effort of Debian just
silently dies simply because one person (namely Grisu) is (for whatever
reason) not able to continue his work. This has to components:
1. Package descriptions are one of the first interfaces we do present
to our users about the software Debian contains. If we want to
attract non-IT professionals we should not expect them to speak
English. So by not providing translated descriptions we increase
the hurdle of installing Debian for a very huge group of users
and this definitely sucks.
2. More general: What about efforts which are more or less driven by
a one person project. If this person is not able to continue his
work, should this project die? For packages we have a procedure
to follow, but what of this kind of projects? Gathering translators
for DDTP was a process which relayed on a working DDTP server. If
it is not continuosely used and known to be error prone all work
of the past is wasted. This might mean that this work is not
really needed - but as I tried to mention in 1. this would be
the ignorant point of view from computer geeks. So the meta question
is: Are we able to support infrastructural works if their maintainer
does not continue to work on it.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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