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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:36:57 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Guangyuan Yang <ygy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        madpilot@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   translations [was: Re: The Italian translation has not been updated since 2008]
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:22:45AM -0400, Guangyuan Yang wrote:
> Books and articles take huge amount of time and attention to details.
> I cannot achieve this myself, and in my previous experience, we
> definitely need some web service setting up for casual translators

I know that the translation projects are a thankless task.

What I'd like to discuss is where our efforts should go.  I would
suggest we prioritize things that work as introductions for those new
to FreeBSD:

 - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
 - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html
 - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html

and then possibly

 - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/index.html
 - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/index.html

IMHO the internal project documentation should not be a priority.  The
translations will most likely stay out of date, as they are now.

Nor, do I think some of the very technical articles/books should be, for
the very same reason.

I think the above should be reasonable goals.  What do other people think?

[A separate topic would be about getting rid of antiquated documentation that
is in English :-) e.g. pmake.  I'll raise that elsewhere.]

mcl



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