On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 03:00:53PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > Hi folks, > > after LGM with a lot of feedback, I would like to propose a structural > change on how we're currently write documentation. > > I want to propose to use gettext for translations and use only one > reference language for our manual. My last inquiry on the mailing list > showed, that most of you were really annoyed by the mixed up languages > in the XML files. Back in 2003, it was a new attempt of writing > documentation, but it turned out to be hardly maintainable with > a big learning curve for new contributors. hip hip hurrah! > Why gettext? > It is currently a widespread technique to provide translations for > documentation. The free software community provides a wide set of usable > tools for translators. > > Of course, I'm fully aware of the possible drawbacks of this approach. > We need a migration strategy to migrate the current content and set a > reference language. I'd propose English, because every author who want > to introduce new content need to write it in English first and translate > it afterwards. 100% agree > After this migration, we concentrate only on one manual (instead of 8 or > 12 currently) and we will be able get new contributors (because of the > lower barrier and people who already provide translation for gnome-docs > can also provide translations to our manual). We have to roles involved > in the creation process: authors and translators. Every contributor can > decide on which side he want to be. Even both will work, like > currently... I'm mostly a translator but I'll do my best to help the migration process... > I would very welcome to get a lot of feedback from you. The wiki would > probably the best place to write down a migration strategy (what will > happen with the screenshots for example?) > > PS: See also my blog entry about my thoughts on this: > http://romanofskiat.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/lgm-aftermathnowlgm-aftermath/ > > Greetings, > -- > Roman Joost > www: http://www.romanofski.de > email: romanofski@xxxxxxxx Thank you very much, Roman! bye -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
