I compiled all the viewpoints and its discussions from the mailinglist and the meeting transcript to be here in a one documented place for easy reference and manipulation.

I categorized them by subject/decision. Original proceedings can be found here:

• Meeting transcript: [1]
• Mailinglist archive: [2]
• If you found something missing, please update this page with it, thankfully.
• Please comment if needed signing your name.
• I put others' replies to each post with > before paragraph.
• You will find my comments in bold and with "===>" before my own paragraph.

Thanks Mfarag 18:35، 9 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)

Drupal Version 5.x or 6.x RC ?

Khaled Hosney

- Said: [3] I've been doing some work lately on drupal 6 (this page it bite outdated, but I think the file is updated), we need to know the modules used on the site and prioritise its translation.

===> So, do you vote for 6.3 or 5.9 or an earlier version?  ? Mfarag 18:35، 9 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)

- Said: AFAIK, drupal 6 has much better multilingual support than 5.x series, which is critical to our need. In the meantime we can test and fix the translation as needed.

===> Still need your final vote Mfarag 18:35، 9 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)

Mohamed Sameer

- Said: [4] I'd go for 5.x for now but for different reasons:

1) CCK and views for drupal 6 are still RC. The final releases are not there

yet. I doubt you will build a serious website without them unless you are going to do all the custom content types and views manually which is wrong IMHO.

===> You are absolutely correct..

• views status
• cck status

It seems that this CMS 6.x releases have been released without all modules ready! Mfarag 18:35، 9 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)

2) Drupal.org is not yet using drupal 6 for the above reason. If you feel brave enough to use Drupal 6 for arabeyes while drupal.org is not using it yet.

===>Update: Drupal.org is going to upgrade to Drupal 6, saying leaving it on 5.x until now was a "mistake"": Dries Buytaert blog ..Skip to paragraph #5

===> So, Are you voting for Drupal 5.9 ? or an earlier version? Mfarag 18:35، 9 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)

Joomla

Ossama Khayat

AFAIR, the problem with Drupal is that it doesn't have full localization support, at least for menus. That is the main reason why I use Joomla.

>M. Sameer said: [5] >Not true. There are ways to do it. Check this please: >sanabelnetwork.org .... >This was done using the i18n module.

Ossama Said: [6] The screencast I watched here http://drupal.org/node/201788 talked about this. I was referring to Drupal 6 and that's why I thought it wasn't possible.

===> So, do you vote for Joomla, or Drupal 6.3 or 5.9 or an earlier version? Mfarag 18:35، 9 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)

Drupal Translation - ترجمة دروبال

كما قلت من قبل في القائمة البريدية، الترجمة ليست مشكلة ويمكننا إكمالها في أسبوع أو شيء من هذا القبيل. علينا إذن أن نحدد الإصدارة التي ستستخدم بناء على المعايير الأخرى بغض النظر عن حالة الترجمة فهذه يمكن التعامل معها لاحقا. --خالد حسني 17:45، 8 أغسطس 2008 (UTC)