New RFR -- Zanata instance

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 11:51:00 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:57:57PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 09:14 +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> > On 06/14/2011 08:33 PM, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> > > *sigh*
> > 
> > With respect, Dimitris, that kind of response isn't very helpful. It 
> > makes me feel that the exploration of alternatives is unwelcome.
> > 
> > > Are there any specific concerns the Fedora translation community has
> > > raised about the existing, proven infrastructure which weren't
> > > addressed? Why do we need to test a new software?
> > 
> > Because we do not yet know what Zanata might offer us compared to 
> > Transifex. Indeed, we can't and won't know that until we have a chance 
> > to try it out.
> > 
> 
> We deflect all sorts of things precisely b/c "trying them out" is not a
> zero-cost operation.
> 
> So - we're trying to figure out why we would commit resources to
> something if we don't have any thing to gain from it.

In the case of Insight, many of the team members installed local
sandbox copies (on our own laptops, for example) of various content
frameworks so we could do these kinds of feature comparisons.  Is that
not possible with Zanata?

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