On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > ...there have been language specific mailing lists in the past, but they tend > to be short-lived...
I think an important distinction is between a project's dev list, which is where project decisions must be made. That one must currently be in English so that ASF members and the Board can review discussions and decisions if needed, without relying on imperfect translations. Having users channels in other languages can be useful but that's probably only viable for big projects with lots of users, so that each list can be a meaningful community. IMO chat channels in other languages than English are not really a problem, as long as the project's decisions happen on its dev list. Like with any other non-dev-list channel, someone needs to bring discussions to the dev list as long as they become important - like affecting the software development as opposed to just being coffee machine type discussions. -Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
