From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Jun 25 07:19:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA24820 for hubs-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp [202.239.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA24804; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amont.astec.co.jp (amont.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.1]) by tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (8.6.12+2.5Wb7/3.4Wbeta5-astecMX2.3) with ESMTP id XAA15914; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:42 +0900 Received: from lepton (lepton.astec.co.jp [172.20.12.27]) by amont.astec.co.jp (8.7.6/3.5Wbeta-astecMX2.4) with ESMTP id XAA21152; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:41 +0900 (JST) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local translations of www.freebsd.org From: Hiroyuki HANAI In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:32:26 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199706150832.BAA05048@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.1 / Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19970625231944C.hanai@astec.co.jp> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:44 +0900 X-Dispatcher: impost version 0.99h (Apr. 2, 1997) Lines: 46 Sender: owner-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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 . How do you think about them? They should be put into the CVS repository at freefall? -- H.Hanai