Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:44 +0900 From: Hiroyuki HANAI <hanai@astec.co.jp> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local translations of www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <19970625231944C.hanai@astec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:32:26 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199706150832.BAA05048@time.cdrom.com>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: Local translations of www.freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:32:26 -0700 (PDT) > This is just a quick note concerning sites like www.ar.freebsd.org which > maintain localized versions of the home page. Having local language versions > is certainly a good thing and I'm very happy to see it, I'm simply wondering > if: > > A) It's better to try and somehow merge these back into the master > sources so that anyone with a CVS repository could do something > like: > > cvs co -P www > cd www/data > make LANG=ja_JP.EUC > > or whatever interface makes the most sense (maybe they go to > www/data/ja_JP.EUC instead - I'm not Mr. I18N here :-) for > making the Japanese copy of www.freebsd.org. > > Then www.jp.freebsd.org simply builds its own pages from source > instead of mirroring www.freebsd.org and everybody's happy. > > > B) Simply syncing this by hand whenever significant changes occur > rather than building a mechanism for it. This appears to be > the system in place now. :-) > > If we choose (A) then John Fieber is certainly going to need to tell us > how to do it since he's the web god around here. If we choose (B) then > I guess this is a "heads up!" to all regional www maintainers that > the FreeBSD home page has changed significantly and the translation crews > should start considering another revision of their local copies. :) We, Japanese people, are going to make the translation. Have we decided which one to be chosen? I've searched my mail boxes, but I don't find any mail about it... Also, we are providig original pages at <URL:http://www.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/>. How do you think about them? They should be put into the CVS repository at freefall? -- H.Hanai
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