Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:59:04 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org Cc: setantae@submonkey.net, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35155: [PATCH] Misc corrections to the Handbook, chapter 2 Message-ID: <20020222.085904.28781226.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020221170951.B30225@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200202202000.g1KK08V36428@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020221115732.GA575@rhadamanth> <20020221170951.B30225@blackhelicopters.org>
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Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote in <20020221170951.B30225@blackhelicopters.org>: mwlucas> Many of our translation teams speak/read very poor English, and mwlucas> reducing whitespace changes in commits is their single biggest mwlucas> request. If you don't wrap this line in the same commit, the mwlucas> translator just has to evaluate one line for changes. With the wrap, mwlucas> they must evaluate three. Eliminating these whitespace diffs reduces mwlucas> their workload for this operation by 66%. While this is easy for us, mwlucas> people who don't even use our alphabet, let alone speak English mwlucas> natively, will have a very hard time of it. Thank you for your explanation. I think recognizing that as a problem may be difficult for English writers. Some people I contacted before (those are responsible for a certain documentation project which is not related to FreeBSD) did not accept this rule, and seemed to think the separation as a bore. mwlucas> There was a whole presentation about this at BSDCon, where one of the mwlucas> Japanese -doc translators said, in a very polite way, "Please, please, mwlucas> please don't do this!" (I don't think that that presentation is mwlucas> on-line yet, but it should be soon.) The presenter was Japanese, and mwlucas> spoke very poor English, yet thought it was important enough to get up mwlucas> in front of us and talk through it. You can download the paper from the following location: http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/tech.htm (but to access papers from conferences of less than a year ago, you will need your USENIX membership.) I am learning English conversation, but it is hard for me (perhaps as you feel it hard to learn Japanese). I hope I'll be able to talk to you at the meeting like BSDCon in the future. Thank you. -- | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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