From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 15 9:41:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from eos.ocn.ne.jp (eos.ocn.ne.jp [210.190.142.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA3637B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 09:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp) Received: from mail.hrslab.yi.org (p3004-ip01funabasi.chiba.ocn.ne.jp [61.112.99.4]) by eos.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id BAA13219; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:41:36 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (alph.hrslab.yi.org [192.168.0.10]) by mail.hrslab.yi.org (8.9.3/3.7W/DomainMaster) with ESMTP id BAA53697; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:40:55 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:39:54 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20010716.013954.41663913.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> To: dima@unixfreak.org Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale translations From: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <20010715134208.9F7513E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010715134208.9F7513E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.95b101 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Dima, Dima Dorfman wrote in <20010715134208.9F7513E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>: dima> I'm not talking about translations which lag behind the real version dima> for a month or two; we have some that haven't been updated in dima> literally years, and have nobody actively updating them or working on dima> them; some still document RELENG_2_2! I agree with you, but this problem is more general, not specific to translations. Original documents written in English can also become old. There are only difference in how actively maintained they are. dima> So, what can we do about them? We can obviously remove them; the dima> original translators probably won't like this, but we can always bring dima> them back if somebody wants to work on them. Another alternative dima> would be to post a big warning on the front of each document saying dima> it's so obsolete as to be nearly useless (we'd need to find somebody dima> who speaks the language, which may not be easy). Anything else? Japanese translation team uses "revcheck script" for www/ja tree to notify "this page is old one" (see www/ja/prehtml). Although this problem cannot be solved completely, a similar mechanism will somewhat help, I think. -- | Hiroki Sato | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message