Karsten Wade wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 07:54 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> I wonder if it might make sense to have some sort of notice on the index >> page stating what the current released version is, to avoid confusion. >> However, that wouldn't be as much help if someone links directly to a >> locale-specific document. In other words, we could put a notice here: >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/translation-quick-start-guide/index.html >> >> But if someone linked to: >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/translation-quick-start-guide/ja/index.html >> >> ...they'd never see the notice. Probably still worthwhile, I would >> think. >> >> I'm not too keen on constantly removing and adding documents from CVS, >> which could end up being a maintenance nightmare, not to mention a major >> abuse of SCM functionality. Does anyone have some better ideas for >> marking these documents to make sure that readers know they're looking >> at something out of date? > > Two thoughts: > > 1. Put a notice onthe t-q-s-g/index.html that says what is updated and > what is not; > 1.1 Put a similar notice on the top of all translated guides that refers > to the canonical index.html as a reference to see what is up-to-date of > translations > 1.2 This is a manual process, so sucks for that. > 1.3 This could be applied to other translated documents. > > 2. Another manual process would be to populate all out-of-date > translations with a watermark image "Translation Out of Date" > 2.1 This could be made automagic, that is, when the POT file in CVS is > changed for a guide, all translated guides get the watermark until the > corresponding PO file is updated. This would be eye catching, also 'automagic' sounds charming :) So that the idea#1's notice can be simple and static?! noriko > >> /me notes ruefully that this would probably be easy in Plone. > > Most likely, since this is an essential CMS need. > > - Karsten > -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
