On 8/1/12, Pete Travis <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Christopher Antila < > crantila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 30 July 2012 10:16:04 Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: >> > A few weeks ago we received a ticket[0] asking about publishing man >> > pages for Fedora on the Internet. We know that there are other man >> > pages out there however we have found that they may not be up to date >> > with the versions that are in Fedora. >> > >> > The overall opinion, that I've seen, is that this would be something >> > that might be worthwhile *if* we can script the entire process. >> > >> > Does anyone have any ideas for doing this or have any opinions on >> > doing this? >> > >> > >> > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828669 >> > >> > -- Eric >> > >> > >> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> > Fedora Project - https://fedoraproject.org >> > >> > Member of: >> > * Fedora Board >> > * Documentation Project >> > >> > 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1 >> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> >> Hi: >> >> For the ground-breaking kind of effort this would take, I think it's a >> waste of >> time. We'd be better off spending this effort on improving our >> pre-existing, >> user-oriented documentation. The fact is, only a very small percentage of >> the >> population uses manual pages and there isn't much advantage for them to >> be >> accessible in a web browser. >> >> We need to think about our distribution's target user base. If you're >> looking >> up a manual page, you're using a terminal emulator, and you should be >> comfortable enough to know how to use the up-arrow, down-arrow, and 'q' >> buttons on your keyboard. In other words, I think the advantage of >> web-based >> manual pages is negligible. >> >> But... >> If we do put them online, we should not say "man" anywhere, if possible. >> >> But... >> If we can localize the manual pages *and* send the translations upstream, >> then >> maybe it's worth it. >> >> > If we wanted to go forward looking at the packages app, is there a way for > us to look its implementation? I see it uses moshka, but the keywords I > tossed at http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/ didn't find anything. > > I like the idea of pushing translated manpages upstream. Does `man` itself > have localization features? > > --pete > Well,I think that may also be a giant project...And tough,too. -- Yours sincerely, Christopher Meng Ambassador/Contributor of Fedora Project and many others. http://cicku.me -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
