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,
>
> I have forwarded a message to the list regarding this.

BTW: if you don't get a response, simply take the lead.
 
> > > > A page explaining the situation with the Mandrake distro should be a
> > > > welcome addition to the distro project in arabeyes.
>
> For now we have this page:
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/l10n/ar.php3
> Summary:
> DrakX 91%
> menu-messages 96%
> userdrake 99%
> Anything else (bootsplash, drakconf drakcronat drakfw draksync mandrakegalaxy
> mdkkdm drakwizard mdklaunchhelp mdkonline menudrake rfbdrake rpmdrake urpmi
> usermode ...) is 100% completed.

As I'm sure you are aware this is only a small fraction of what we need
to see in terms of Arabization.  We'll need to insure that we have all
the necessary applications that do Arabic beyond having an Arabic install
and GUI environment.  I'm simply noting this for completeness.
 
> > 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.
> > Munzir, can you and Muhammad talk and agree on file formats, content,
> > etc ?
>
> We are doing it now.

Wonderful.  I've added you as a maintainer to the distro project and entered
a log blurb noting the discussion above.  Do please continue to consult with
Muhammad in all regards.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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