[...] The code is also organized so that if, say, I add a special page and update the code of the foreign version, that special page will appear in the foreign version, but with English text; they can add the translation for that page at any time, no coordination needed.
If *you* update the code of the foreign version? Does that mean that you would also take care of installing the updated code for the foreign versions? That would take all my worries away, but I was under the impression you wanted to leave that to the local developers.
Well, read that as "if the code gets updated from CVS", by whoever. When I update the main code with something like a bug fix, it will be a pretty trivial thing for me to update the forgeign ones at the same time, so I'll probably do that. But I also might forget. Also, someone like Magnus might fix a bug and update only the German installation, leaving me to update the English one later.
Jimbo moved us to the new server in part so he could give accounts out more freely (currently I, Axel, Brion, Magnus, and Neil have accounts there), so he would no longer be a bottleneck or a single point of failure. It makes no sense to just make me the bottleneck instead (although I'm sure Jimbo sees that as an improvement :-)