“I’m not involved with the planet in any way except as a reader, and occasional commenter to blogs. I’m not personally opposed to non-english content showing up in my content stream, as it does remind me that there is an entire unverse of people involved in Gnome who are doing things that very well may be interesting. I appreciate it when translations are offered, but not everyone has that opportunity, and there are a wide variety of toolls available to do translations.”

I’m only a brazilian reader and I agree totally with Rusty. I also agree with Stoffe, when he say this:

“Please, all Planet GNOMErs, post whatever the hell you want! I skip what I don’t want to see and read the rest. Since what I want to see and what you want to see is unlikely to be the same, too much is better than too little.”

And also with Victor Bogado, with the sentence below:

“[...] that is not reason to shut up every other language, after all we are talking about gnome planet, not “gnome country”.”

;-)

Please, all Planet GNOMErs, post whatever the hell you want! I skip what I don’t want to see and read the rest. Since what I want to see and what you want to see is unlikely to be the same, too much is better than too little.

Thanks!

One of the things that I persoanally enjoy about the planet and browsers on linux platforms is that if the language requires a different character set, I almost always have that character set available, and can at least recognize that the character set is not a latin1 character set. Oddly enough, that is not the cae in my experience for browsing in a browser on my windows platform at work. However that is liely to be more of an issue with being at work rather than it being windows specifically.

I obviously bow to Jeff in his intent and understanding, but thougt I should note that while there are people wo may not enjoy non-english content being on the planet, there are at least some people who only speak english who are not upset at the situation.

gnome, fedora, mozilla and much of the open source software is developed by people who don’t speak English, even if the lowest common denominator is some kind of engrish, that is not reason to shut up every other language, after all we are talking about gnome planet, not “gnome country”.

Regardless of who was “right of wrong” it is nice to see into the lives of gnome hackers everywhere. If there are 50 different languages on planet gnome, no 1 hacker can read them all. It also makes things difficult and frustrating. That is why there are several different localized versions of planet gnome such as planet gnome br: http://planeta.br.gnome.org/ Using a language as a common denominator allows everyone to read about eachother.

Can you blog about the work you’ve been doing on tracker recently? You’ve been lighting up the ML with xesam patches recently.

It was never my intention to come off as rude.

For people who want to know how:
insert into wp_post2cat (post_id, category_id) select ID, 8 from wp_posts;

So use the feed of:
http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/category/english/

(The only reason why posts in other languages have popped up recently was due to a bug in the way Venus — the actively maintained branch of Planet — loads the cache and selects which posts to display. I’ve worked around that now that gnome-fr and gnome-br share the cache with Planet GNOME.)