Re: Mandrake club membership

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Munzir Taha Obeid <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com> wrote:
> > A better solution, IMHO, is to coordinate with the arabic team for
> > internationalization in mandrake, I hope they will push things better,
> > and any testing/developing can be helped by arabeyes members.
> > A page explaining the situation with the Mandrake distro should be a
> > welcome addition to the distro project in arabeyes. Nadim was already
> > asking if there are people who would volunteer for other distros.
>
> Ok then I would be happy to volunteer for Mandrake if Nadim and others
> accept this. I will be happy to follow your steps then though I think the
> task for me would be easier than your case ;)

Munzir we accept all those that get things done and are driven to bring
forth results and accomplishments :-)

I have no issue in adding you to be a maintainer on the 'distro' page
as well (and I'll do it soon - make sure to start your log posts with
[Mandrake] or similar), but I would like to stress that we should
really follow the same procedure with regard to the various distros.
Meaning, I highly encourage you to help Mr. Muhammad Alkarouri (the
RedHat Distro contact) to better organize how to proceed first and
foremost (even before looking any deeper into Mandrake).  My thinking
is mostly along the lines of coming up with a document and/or a process
by which we can "note" (or 'certify' if you will) that a distro contains
all that is required (or is available) to properly support Arabic.  I'm
sure there will be issues which are unique to each distro, but that can
and should be dealt with later once the groundwork has been established
on how we go about quantifying Arabic support in _any_ distro.

Munzir, can you and Muhammad talk and agree on file formats, content, etc,
etc so that we don't end-up with different formats/listings/content on a
per distro basis ?  We should, as noted earlier, end-up with a spreadsheet
(or table) listing each distro's content and support level (akin to
distrowatch.com package listings) with regard to Arabic.  The spreadsheet
should ultimately reside on various sites where people would care to see
it (ie. it should become very public) such as,

  http://distrowatch.com/index.php?language=AR

If done right, this will also put pressure on various distros that care
about Arabs as a potential audience/consumer base to bring forth whatever
recommended level of support you guys agree upon to be a minimum.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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