Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Petr Prazak wrote:

> I found few problems while translating.
> I'm new to Sympa so if something is my (or configuration) fault,
> please excuse me.
> 
> 1. /etc/wwsympa.conf:
> The 'title' parameter should be included in the catalog to be localizable.

This should be customized by almost every site, that's why it's not
in NLS.

> 2. The <TITLE> line in the HTML mails is redundant.

Do you mean in welcome.tpl ?

> 3. All mail templates must be able to set its own charset by means of
> Content-Type parameter, the Czech translation is using the iso-8859-2
> encoding and it must be enforced in all emails.

That's because we can't access NLS entries (such as 12/2) within
templates.

> 4. The welcome.tpl template is text/html by default. I don't know your
> opinions, but I'd much prefer using multipart/alternative with both
> text/plain and text/html. Please, see the Czech translation for the
> example.

This would be better format indeed.

> 5. Lots of texts is hardcoded in the wwslib.pm - usually the choices
> in the combo boxes. These texts should be taken from the catalog as
> well.

Here is what's left in wwslib.pm :
        * reception modes : could be defined in NLS
        * bounces status : bounce management should be automated soon

> 6. Wish: It would be nice to let the anonymous user to change the
> language of the WWSympa. I'd like to have the WWSympa in English, but
> I will have the most users Czech speaking. The place at the top (next
> to the Login link) seems ideal to me.

WWSympa would have to store this preference somewhere (probably in 
a HTTP cookie). It would be more interresting to use the user's 
navigator's preferred language (HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE environment var).
But lots of people use english versions of navigator.

> 7. Problem?: I have created a testing list. I keep getting the
> is_moderated set on, even if the list has no editors. Do you know what
> may be wrong ?

I suppose you mean the [is_moderated] var available in templates.
Have a look at list_menu.tpl for an example :
(it works well for us)
          [IF is_moderated]
            Moderators
            [FOREACH e IN editor]
              <BR><FONT SIZE=-1><A
HREF="mailto:[e->NAME]">[e->gecos]</A></FONT>
            [END]
          [ENDIF]

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseaux des Universités