-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For clarity I'm starting a new threat specific to the translation versus bug issue. The problem, as I see it, is in the guide life cycle: Development Development freeze Release POTs so translators can do their magic Incorporate magic in with the master source Compile and create all documents Publish Accept bugs System falls apart It's that last portion that is the problem. If we fix the bugs then we break the translations which means the translators have more catch-up work to do. If we don't fix the bugs then we have "official" documentation that has known errors which, to the end user, can be confusing at best, catastrophic at worst. And apparently we aren't the only group to have this problem. GNOME and Ubuntu both have this problem and address it similarly to us. It seems that we have two choices: 1) Fix the bugs, push the enhancements to the next release, and translators have more work to do although we should be able to minimize the work. 2) Roll all the bugs and enhancements to the next release and do zero maintenance to the documentation once they have been published. Personally, I lean more towards the first option. As Shaun, from GNOME, said last night, "...I don't think fully translated docs are worthwhile if they're wrong". And we should be able to limit the amount of errors that get translated in the first place by actually doing QA. I welcome thoughts from the community... - --Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMJKGxAAoJEDbiLlqcYamxTrMP/R7ZXFneomYfqZaZ5KQQnP9P geOXkD0WxIEHY6S5Eqxikl1p8q5esimdw5qFi9NDh5v3J4fxh7kt2+y5TXKJy5yF UPLm3dLWPUiZphiGZet4kCrDBpc9nPiUpaR63FkurPZnflZ4IWEd5AY5WnPFwnjA Pw0IhjvSZ6JKZhJVvDtUsDkU58vE42OyOUcSSmz9Ex5cOAkKxPnVj11rpHuuAlSi SFyU1KWDKTRz1zxOT8KW2jEt5xCf3te3XxJ9WX4WnWYEOkyFAWDCnOtfSF/xr9BN BPS5m2B4jTMcYmKmVfGhd8sSoE0IoJ9eUqXfPeNzjKvoN49p+XtCU6OrdrpX7t5r u5AEen6FmEfeMliULwGuQ78mmvsKJNEo1XRsjX/ZZcJXMfq9LXSGe6nUhY1d7uCI hZf9zPIuB3cZAoB7RG9JzE042yK35kdlLkme2/a046ji3KvC4jFV230nbEeN6D8N 0KZGozx4f/0rQsAQjiD74lpp3hr4oz3kRpVNgDTemIHp9PTB2aNYmCcpYM95TiFA y5XVFrDkKMLfOHd/moOC7rmBUBe9CUlpva4ZTNuiGyhMH3Rk7I7BWbjDvDrghikG SD8eg3inix1kKJiQvYDyHtn5wlCqfbzo1bpXPEYGnZSpORhWyJIiSOq6lFjWNtlz +4FBFqJAkdDyEEtmo1lU =FPUy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
