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Posted to dev@harmony.apache.org by Sian January <si...@googlemail.com> on 2010/11/30 11:02:11 UTC

[site] Removing Russian Pages (Was: Re: [site] One-sentence project description)

On 24 November 2010 13:41, Mark Hindess <ma...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> In message <AA...@mail.gmail.com>,
> Sian January writes:
>>
>> Thanks to those who commented.  I have checked this in today for
>> in order to get something up there that complies with the ASF
>> requirements, but I am happy to update it at a later date if anyone
>> wants to discuss the wording further.
>
> Excellent.  Thanks.
>
>> Is there anyone maintaining the Russian site who is able to translate
>> this and check it in?  If not, can I suggest we consider removing the
>> Russian pages since they are starting to get out of date.
>
> +1.  We should remove them.  If someone steps in to update them then
> the old pages will be in svn.  Currently the Russian pages are just
> misleading.
>

I will delete the Russian pages in that case as no-one has come
forward to update them.  As you say it would be easy to reinstate them
in the future if anyone wanted to.

> -Mark
>
>> 2010/11/24 sebb <se...@gmail.com>:
>> > 2010/11/24 Sian January <si...@googlemail.com>:
>> >> Yours sounds better but using "complete" could be a bit misleading
>> >> since Harmony is not yet complete. =9AI know that's not the intended
>> >> meaning but not everyone has English as their first language, so how
>> >> about:
>> >>
>> >> "Apache Harmony software is a modular Java runtime with class
>> >> libraries and associated tools"?
>> >
>> > That would be fine.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2010/11/24 sebb <se...@gmail.com>:
>> >>> 2010/11/24 Sian January <si...@googlemail.com>:
>> >>>> "Apache Harmony software is a modular Java runtime, class libraries
>> >>>> and associated tools"?
>> >>>
>> >>> Reads oddly to me - "is" should not be used with plurals (libraries, to=
>> ols).
>> >>>
>> >>> Perhaps
>> >>>
>> >>> "Apache Harmony software is a modular Java runtime, complete with
>> >>> class libraries
>> >>> and associated tools"?
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 17 November 2010 13:33, Gregory Shimansky <gs...@gmail.com> wr=
>> ote:
>> >>>>> But it also includes JVMTI agent and some tools. So it is not only VM=
>>  and
>> >>>>> class library.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 17.11.2010 16:18, Alexei Fedotov =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Sian,
>> >>>>>> I like the latter. Is it ok to replace "consists of" by "is"?
>> >>>>>> Independence is assumed by Apache anyway.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> --
>> >>>>>> With best regards / =D3 =CE=C1=C9=CC=D5=DE=DB=C9=CD=C9 =D0=CF=D6=C5=
>> =CC=C1=CE=C9=D1=CD=C9,
>> >>>>>> Alexei Fedotov / =E1=CC=C5=CB=D3=C5=CA =E6=C5=C4=CF=D4=CF=D7,
>> >>>>>> http://dataved.ru/
>> >>>>>> +7 916 562 8095
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Sian January
>> >>>>>> <si...@googlemail.com> =9Awrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> In order to meet the ASF requirements[1] for the Harmony website we
>> >>>>>>> need to have a one-sentence description of the project on our main =
>> web
>> >>>>>>> page, the downloads page and in the DOAP file. =9AIt needs to descr=
>> ibe
>> >>>>>>> the 'product' itself rather than the community or the project aims.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I haven't spent ages thinking about this but how about something li=
>> ke:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> "Apache Harmony software is an independent implementation of Java S=
>> E 5
>> >>>>>>> and 6 with a modular runtime architecture."
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> or to be more general:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> "Apache Harmony software consists of a modular Java runtime and cla=
>> ss
>> >>>>>>> libraries."
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Any thoughts?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Sian
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#naming
>> >>>>>>>
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