"Let's discuss this at the next UDS"

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2011-07-06 21:49, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote on 06/07/11 07:05:
>> In addition to that, the fact that this discussion started is a good
>> reason IMO to consider the matter further during UDS-P. In a thread
>> like this, people tend to forget that there is more into handling
>> languages than picking a locale; see my reply to Martin's message.
> 
> A 50-minute face-to-face UDS discussion has its benefits, but waiting
> 111 days to consider the matter further is far too high a price to pay.

Hmm.. My first reaction to that comment was: How many years has GNOME,
and with that Ubuntu, provided a language chooser on the login screen?
How on earth can this topic suddenly have become so urgent that its
solution can't wait another development cycle?

But I agree that a 50 minutes session has its limitations. My thought
with suggesting UDS was that it would give us time to do careful
preparations. I suppose that those preparations would in effect be much
more important than the actual session.

Since you focus on collaborative documents etc., I think we share the
same idea about what it takes to tackle the topic in a proper manner.

Can't help worrying a little about the time constraints, though. I spent
quite some time during the Natty development cycle to help fix a bunch
of bugs about language and locale issues. I'd hate to see Oneiric be
shipped with similar bugs as those that were recently resolved because
the work is rushed unnecessarily.

Maybe my concerns are related to the fact that I'm a newbie here, with
very little experience of the kind of collaboration you outline. I look
forward to it, though.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj