Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:25:24 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Putting translated release notes onto the web site Message-ID: <20021110162524.GZ59222@nathan.ruhr.de>
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Hi, I am currently trying to make the German translation of the release notes available on the FreeBSD web site. I hope/believe that it will not be a big problem to do this static release notes: check out the correct version of the sources, run make, copy the html files into www/de/relnotes/releases/<whatever>R, translate the few .sgml files in that directory, connect it to the build, test, commit, done. Ok, the de part of the website is "a little" out of date and the web build is not DOC_PREFIX clean, but that is a topic for another time. The part that could get *REALLY* messy is the up-to-date version of the release notes. As far as I can see, this version of the release notes is only available in english. And to make matter worse, the active version of these release notes (i.e. the one pointed to be all the links) is installed without a LANGCODE prefix. If you look around on the website, you can find a LANGCODE version of them (http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/en_US.ISO8859-1) but that directory only contains some subdirs and has been stale since April. What would be a good way forward here? Obviously, I would prefer to go for a solution that uses LANGCODE for all versions (including en_US). If I remember correctly, this is the set-up we currently use for the FAQ - the official location of this document is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ ...and there is a maze of symbolic links and Apache redirects to make make all the old locations work as well. I want to avoid something like this for the release notes. Additionally, it may be neccessary to make some small changes on www. If I read www/en/relnotes/Makefile correctly, only the US version has been checked out on www in /usr/relnotes/doc and /usr/relnotes4/doc, this would have to be changed to support the translations. So, what would be a good way forward here? /s/Udo -- People who claim Windows is superior to Unix are the same people who'd argue that you better use your hand instead of toilet paper to wipe your ass. I can hear them now - 'It's colourful and it's intuitive and easy to use and even a child could do it.'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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