From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 03:08:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0051516A4CE; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 03:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.gufi.org (civetta.gufi.org [212.110.23.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670BE43FB1; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 03:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sysadmin@alexdupre.com) Received: from server.alexdupre.com (host245-49.pool8288.interbusiness.it [82.88.49.245]) by relay.gufi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8846720F22; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:08:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from thunder.alexdupre.com (thunder.alexdupre.com [192.168.0.101]) hAGB8m8O081872; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:08:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sysadmin@alexdupre.com) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:08:47 +0100 From: Alex Dupre X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Message-ID: <87124995263.20031116120847@alexdupre.com> To: owner-freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <20031116.090904.35667861.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> References: <20031115211339.GB20162@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20031116.090904.35667861.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: Site lists in the Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Alex Dupre List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:08:59 -0000 Sunday, November 16, 2003, 1:09:04 AM, you wrote: HS> What do you think of moving lists of FreeBSD mirror sites into HS> a single place? Currently we have such lists in index.xsl (http) and HS> handbook (ftp,cvsup,...), but it makes maintenance difficult especially HS> for the translation teams since the lists include the same information HS> as the English version and they are revised frequently. HS> I made a patch to gather the mirror lists into doc/share/sgml/mirrors.xml HS> and to pull it up from mirrors/chapter.sgml using XSLT. HS> Comments? I haven't looked your patch in depth, but the idea is very very nice. Maintaining the translations of such lists is really a nighmare for translators. This solution, if it's correct like I hope, will save a lot of time, letting translator to concentrate their efforts on something more useful and interesting. -- Alex Dupre sysadmin@alexdupre.com http://www.alexdupre.com/ alex@sm.FreeBSD.org Today's excuse: The CPU has shifted, and become decentralized.