[fink-core] Re: Two domain issues to discuss.

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Benjamin Reed wrote:

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| First of all, what the heck is a "mad bed"?
"made bed" my bad that my 'e' key hangs now and then, I should really
get myself a new keyboard.
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| Second, I'm not really sure what we really get out of having a separate
| domain for i18n stuff.  It's really only useful to a subset of i18n
| "developers" (translators), so I don't see why it needs it's own
| infrastructure.  Why not fink.sf.net/i18n/ ?
Well that does not help me really. Because I know that us (which means
the i18n team) would gain more flexibility and we would not have to
follow the pre-set design of the Fink Web-site. At the rate things are
growing it will require more than a simple /sub-dir/ soon enough, that's
where a separate resource makes sense. Especially since I can do as I
please on my server and install whatever we need. which might include
esoteric scripts, tools or software to better manage the i18n process.
With sourceforge that would be impossible, at least I think?

| It kind of seems like
| splitting up our site (and spending money, albeit only a little), for no
| reason.
See above for the more apparent reasons. The money is no issue since I
am paying for everything out of my own pocket. I just want to be as
flexible and independent as possible when it comes to the i18n project
and Alexander agrees with me on this point. Limiting us to the structure
required is something we would like to avoid, that is also a reason.

| All it would be doing is separating our resources a little bit
| more, rather than having everything in one place.  It's just chopping up
| our mindshare without any real benefit other than not having to type an
| extra slash or two.
How does this "chop" up our mind share? I do not quite understand that
statement. It simply keeps a "sub-group" of people in one place and it
keeps their resources in one place. Thoughts on procedure, tools,
Documentation on i18n has nothing to do with the main Fink web-site. The
outcome of the i18n Process is shown on the Fink web-site.
Personally I do not see any reason why the
documentation/tools/organisational software should be anywhere near the
fink.sf.net web-site.

But then again, we (the i18n team) can always use the domain in
officially and put some of the documentation we write into /i18n/ *shrug*
|
| On the other hand, I don't mind the idea of a separate
| community-oriented site for unofficial news and interviews and such.  I
| think we're big enough that it warrants it, and it lets us keep the more
| important, "official" news of bugs and security updates on fink.sf.net
| longer, while preserving the ability to have a more easygoing connection
| to our users.
|
Well as things are now, this will not happen for a long time. I just
wanted to collect an official opinion on this early on. I simply lack
the time and energy for it right now.

- -d

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