sorry for causing such a politcal discussion with my request, i thought it was just a formal thing.
By background, I guess we mean more of a mini bio. Now that there are so many developers, its nice to know who people are, what they do, and their particular interests in Pd (there is an amazing diversity in what people do with Pd).
http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Max%20Neupert%22 ;)
As for adding translators as SourceForge developers, I think that while translation is not coding, CVS is good for managing any text file, so it makes sense to manage translations as well. Hopefully Max will contribute other things to the CVS as well, like Pd objects and programs to the "abstractions" section.
i surely will contribute other than translating although not before i graduate in october. until that i can do some translation...
Max is probably the first developer/translator/whatever who enters in order to work on a forked version of Pd. This is bad. This is only my opinion, others surely disagree, but it is still my opinion and you won't easily change it with your arguments, I am terribly stubborn, you know. See my opinion as a "political" statement, I am against forking.
you are describing it like localization will never ever be part of main-pd. is this really the case? i think it's an essential thing for pd to become international. i know that it will not happen overnight, but the code should be ready for it so that localization will be possible later. what is important now is comments in utf-8 to make tutorials and helpfiles in other languages possible.
i can also just send the translated stuff to matju for now. i am okay with that, but i think matju would appreciate if he could focus on his stuff instead of taking care of my 42nd correction.
it's not so trivial to translate as one might think, there were interesting discussions about if certain idioms should be translated or not on the patching-in-tongues-list already. so it might not be always possible to upload a file just once and that's it.
lg, max
(or is it my name??)