--- Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
I repeat: we are not sacrificing any language, we are trying to make sure they can survive and grow more easily. Who knows me should know that I am all for new languages, but it does not make sense if the communities afterwards have to hassle with thousands of issues they were not aware of and they don't even know with who to talk. These people most of the time are simply left alone and that has nothing to do with "our own little fights".
I think this is very important point. If the new language committee cannot attract the help of developers for a language, pre-launch. There is very, very little chance the new community will ever get help from developers to fix issues afterwords. It is extremely difficult to get anything implemented on a small project even when you speak English natively and know who to contact. I have personally never actually succeeded, and am less hopeful each passing month.
I really do sympathize with the communities stuck in the incubator, but from what has been said here it seems to be for their own good in the long run. There are very serious problems with the lack of developer resources for anything outside of the largest Wikipedias. They will not benefit from going live now, and having to struggle to attract developer attention on their own later.
BirgitteSB
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