On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:47 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote: > the translation. That would leave only the English form as a canonical > resource, which avoids any liability issues from translation errors, and it > would allow translators to help the information proliferate through the > community. I agree in principal, but this brings up a very interesting point. Why is English our only trusted language? By that I mean ... if we put the same safeguards in place for $LANG that we put in for English, can we pass trust to trusted people who work within that $LANG? For example, in Fedora Documentation, I have been encouraging works submitted in original languages other than English. Such a work must come with a trusted editor who speaks/reads the language well enough to confirm translation, so, either a native speaker or a language genius. That's the exact same thing we require in English; no content can progress very far or be draft published without an editor. By trust, I mean, formal recognition that this person knows wtf Fedora is about and can be trusted to speak for the whole and correct wrongs where they find them. Trust goes like this: Board -> PMC -> individuals in the project. So, since we already display this passage of trust in the case of Ambassadors, we should be able to use the same for translations. One reason we need to follow this method is, we already display this trust in Fedora Translation. We trust them to translate the strings faithfully. This is why I don't have to go to Red Hat translators and ask them to verify every line of a translation. Does it make sense to establish this level of trust into announcements, etc.? - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Editor * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Fedora Documentation Project http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit Nashville | May 30 - June 2, 2006 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/
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