gettext: Mailing Lists

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1 12.4.3 Mailing Lists
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1    If we get any inquiries about GNU ‘gettext’, send them on to:
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1      coordinator@translationproject.org
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1    The ‘*-pretest’ lists are quite useful to me, maybe the idea could be
1 generalized to many GNU, and non-GNU packages.  But each maintainer
1 his/her way!
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1    François, we have a mechanism in place here at ‘gnu.ai.mit.edu’ to
1 track teams, support mailing lists for them and log members.  We have a
1 slight preference that you use it.  If this is OK with you, I can get
1 you clued in.
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1    Things are changing!  A few years ago, when Daniel Fekete and I asked
1 for a mailing list for GNU localization, nested at the FSF, we were
1 politely invited to organize it anywhere else, and so did we.  For
1 communicating with my pretesters, I later made a handful of mailing
1 lists located at iro.umontreal.ca and administrated by ‘majordomo’.
1 These lists have been _very_ dependable so far…
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1    I suspect that the German team will organize itself a mailing list
1 located in Germany, and so forth for other countries.  But before they
1 organize for true, it could surely be useful to offer mailing lists
1 located at the FSF to each national team.  So yes, please explain me how
1 I should proceed to create and handle them.
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1    We should create temporary mailing lists, one per country, to help
1 people organize.  Temporary, because once regrouped and structured, it
1 would be fair the volunteers from country bring back _their_ list in
1 there and manage it as they want.  My feeling is that, in the long run,
1 each team should run its own list, from within their country.  There
1 also should be some central list to which all teams could subscribe as
1 they see fit, as long as each team is represented in it.
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