Re: Bidi-less Applications Patching Policy

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 19:24, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:

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> One of the main reasons I come here is to support open source and to make
> much use of available resources, not to duplicate work. The general
> attitude here is not like that. We are practically reinventing rules for
> things that have already been discussed in the Arab world and
> elsewhere.Examples:

> - Arabization/translation issues, we are putting our rules regardless ofthe
> zillion Arabic/language departments in the Arab world. Assuming that nobody
> is teaching computer in Arabic before.

Reading what you said above I understand you are basing your decision almost 
50% on the previous example ?!?

Well, that's why QAC was created for, remember ? ie: to suggest, to propose, 
to improve, to refer to existing work...... If you have any issue with what 
is done on translation, then propose solutions (BTW, I remember you once said 
you're going to work on Fedora...;). Anyway, if work is being duplicated then 
you should simply tell us where and what. It's a community work after all and 
I remember we have been asking all members who'd like to contribute to join 
QAC (and we still are).

On a side note, there was a contact from a community of Arabic translators who 
said they were planning to help us but we are still waiting for actual 
contributions.

Anyway, if you're basing you 'resignation' decision mainly on such an argument 
(again, based on what you said, I understand it that way only), then well...

But, if you have other reasons you don't want to tell us, then I guess we 
can't do much about it.

Salam,

PS: I won't get into discussing the 'Arabeyes is not supporting OSS' statement 
and such (unfair statements ? pointless ?... ;).

- -- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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