Re: Proposal for new mailing list that will include Japanese Layout comments

Richard,

Recently, Ashimura-san and I also met the similar problem on closed Japanese
mailing list.

It is very good time to open the JLTF list for public both English version
and Japanese version.

2010/8/19 Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>

> Folks,
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> Now that the JLReq document is public, I think we need a better strategy
> for handling comments on the JLReq doc from the public. The current lists
> are really only designed for internal use.  I have copied in the i18n WG and
> Martin as IG chair because the solution I propose at the end of this email
> would benefit from checking by them, not least because it may apply to other
> areas in the future.
>
> Currently, people send comments to www-i18n-comments and I have to then
> forward them to the JLTF lists. The problem with this is that people have to
> subscribe to the www-i18n-comments list in order to send the comments, but
> even though they go to that trouble, that doesn't currently enable them
> follow any discussion or response that may arise from their contribution.
>
> I think people should be able to send comments to a public list; the people
> who will be involved in any discussion that arises should also be subscribed
> to that list; people who want to follow the discussion, but who are not part
> of the task force should be able to subscribe to the list also.
>
> Here are some possible ways to achieve this:
>
> 1. continue to use the i18n-comments list, but without forwarding
>
> 2. use the  www-international list
>
> 3. create a new public list.
>
> In each case, enough people from the JLTF task force must be subscribed to
> the list that is used to allow for discussions.
>
> If we use the i18n-comments or www-international lists, there may be a high
> noise factor, since those lists are used for wide ranging discussions.  This
> is particularly the case for www-international.
>
> It may be better to create a new list under the W3C I18n Interest Group, as
> we did with the public-i18n-bidi list (for discussion of bidirectional text
> issues).  I think it would make sense to not limit this list purely to JLReq
> discussions.  There are also discussions on various lists at the moment
> about vertical text, ruby, etc, and I think those are of common interest. In
> fact, I think that Chinese and Korean issues may also be of interest,
> eventually.
>
> So I propose to do the following:
>
> Set up a list called public-i18n-cjk, and subscribe all JLTF folks to that
> list, and forward comments on the JLReq doc to that list, encouraging
> commenters to also join the list. Mention the list to those who have been
> discussing ruby and vertical text.
>
> Please send feedback if you think that there is a better way.
>
> Unless someone suggests a reason not to, I will request the new list be set
> up in a few days time, and will sign people up.
>
> Thanks,
> RI
>
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> Richard Ishida
> Internationalization Lead
> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
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> http://rishida.net/
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