Re: Fedora and New projects

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

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Salam,

On Monday 10 May 2004 17:46, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 18:41, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

[...]

> > not using our work (Debian's installer (d-i) and now Fedora) ?  Why can't
> > we get assurances about our works inclusion _BEFORE_ we start translating
> > ?
>
> In Fedora you _HAD_ the assurance. If you get it on time in the schedule,
> it will be included. And we need to get it right, better than get it wrong.
> For some time we based our logic on (Persian is on anaconda). It turns out
> that Persian will not make it to the final release, and because of a minor
> bug(IMHO).  Though they were nearer to including it.

Let me say that again: we did not base our work on an inclusion in FC2. That 
was _not_ the aim on March 12th (starting date) because it was simply too 
late. And we did not base our logic on a comparison with Persian.

[...]

> > and with Fedora I think we simply missed the boat entirely with regard to
> > deadlines and thought we could pressure inclusion if the work was
> > completed.
>
> Exactly, which is not professional attitude enough for an institution like
> Arabeyes.

No & No :-) Please refer to my previous email (strange, some paragraphs of 
your email contradict each other ! :-).

I have no problem in accepting critics ;) But the example of Fedora is the 
wrong one. If we need to settle, question ourselves and find what is wrong 
with schedules/plans etc we need to talk about something else. What we need 
to remember about Arabic in FC2 is that there was a very small last-minute 
chance for Arabic to be included (again, which was not the plan) and then 
that did not happen. That being said, we need to put FC2 behind us and look 
forward now :---> FC3, which is (and has always been) the plan :)

Regards,

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