From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 22 10:58: 3 2002 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 9C97F37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9598243EE6 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from nosferatu.blackend.org (nosferatu.blackend.org [192.168.1.205]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAMIvqW9052072; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:57:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from nosferatu.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nosferatu.blackend.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMIuinX000342; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:56:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@nosferatu.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by nosferatu.blackend.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAMIuhv8000341; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:56:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:56:43 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Lukasz Bojarski Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Translation of Handbook Message-ID: <20021122185643.GA205@nosferatu.blackend.org> References: <20021122192443.A1493@merkury.pol.lublin.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021122192443.A1493@merkury.pol.lublin.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE 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 On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:24:43PM +0100, Lukasz Bojarski wrote: > Hello! > We have translated one chapter of the Handbook to Polish. We would like > to submit it - but we have one doubt. > We would like to keep all the original text of the Handbook with > Polish text - where it is already translated. This would facilitate > translations of next chapters to our translators, would make easier > to manage the logistics of translations by multiple translators and > - the most important - would make such Handbook usable (in contrary to > for example way of German Handbook - where they write "translation in progress" > in place of not-yet-translated chapters - with link to the original chapter). > Are the both ways correct or is one of them preferred? > Adding the en_US version is not a good idea for the cvs repository since it will add about 2 or 3MB, same for the FTP mirrors, the end-user would download a lot of "useless" files, etc. The link solution is really better for everyone. About the logistics problems, you can implement your idea on your local repo, and only submit chapters when they are translated, it's what I do for the fr_FR version. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message