Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Debian Turkish Support - savannah.gnu.org

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:15:16AM +0200, Murat Demirten wrote:
> 
> I undertand you, but we have to use some tools which savannah provides
> to coordinate our developers. I can't understand some points from you,
> for example what is the reason of savannah accepts the Serbian Gnome
> Translation Project but not Debian Turkish Support project? If we put
> the borders and our project becomes Debian Turkish Translation project
> do you accept?
Gnome is a GNU project; Savannah is the repository for the GNU
project. Debian is not a GNU project; in fact Debian is much more complex
than a project such as Gnome; Debian is a complete GNU/Linux distribution
and it would take at least one whole server dedicated to it. As a matter of
fact Debian has already set up several servers for various purposes and it
makes more sense that you use those servers rather than Savannah.

> Also our goals to imrove GNU/Linux on Turkish support for all Turkish
> users, we just developing on Debian first. 
There are also right channels for that too. For instance, there is already a
project for translation of "po" files of GNU programs into any language. You
should join that prroject or get in touch with them.

Regards,
Jaime

> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:01:47AM +0000, Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:31:47AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > > 
> > > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > 
> > > Murat Demirten <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > > License: gpl
> > > Other License: 
> > > 
> > > Package: Debian Turkish Support
> > > System name: debian-tr
> > > Type: GNU
> > > 
> > > Description:
> > > We want to extend Turkish language support of Debian GNU/Linux 
> > > distribution.
> > > We address all the language support areas, localization, Debian package 
> > > description translations, new Debian packages for language setup, new 
> > > Debian packages for Turkish howtos, manpages, DDP project Turkish 
> > > integration, packaging translated TLDP project outputs.
> > > 
> > > We\'ll also start to develop Turkish spell checker, this will be one of 
> > > the our project outputs too.
> > > 
> > > We need some project managenment tools to coordinate the developers. 
> > > You\'re very apprepicated if accept the project.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > your project is very Debian specific and I do not think it is appropriate to
> > make it part of the GNU project. As a non-gnu project it is also too broad 
> > and
> > for many of the services you need you will find better support at 
> > debian.org.
> > For instance, there is already a Debian Packages Description Translations
> > server set up for several other language; you just have to ask its 
> > coordinator
> > to open a Turkish section for you. The Debian Turkish Howtos should be sent 
> > to
> > the Debian Documentation Project. The spell cahecker is a very good 
> > candidate
> > to become a Savannah project, but you should submit it as a single project 
> > and
> > not as part of a mega-project.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jaime