Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:04:06 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Hiroyuki HANAI <hanai@astec.co.jp>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local translations of www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <10883.872712246@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:14:31 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827115333.341h-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> ja_JP.EUC. All such native language pages will always be built > and carried by all mirrors. We have gobs of mirror sites around > the world and if a few drop off because of extra space demands in > mirroring multiple languages, then so be it. An German speaker > in Japan should be able to get German from www.ja.freebsd.org and > a Japanese speaker in Germany should should be able to get > Japanese from www.de.freebsd.org. Erm... While I can certainly see advantages to this model, I have question whether or not it's truly realistic. As a whole, our existing collection of mirrors is still chasing to catch up with the new english language content and layout of www.freebsd.org and, in well over 2 years, we've yet to succeed in achieving true syncronization with even a majority percentage of them. I don't think that we should complicate a mechanism we've yet to truly standardize on, and I'd furthermore consider it a major victory if we could get even single web servers to display properly localized versions of the pages built from CVS supplied sources. It's also not like the expat German and Japanese speakers would be completely without recourse in the less ambitious model - connectivity between www.jp.freebsd.org and www.de.freebsd.org is getting better all the time. :) > Second is additional native language pages which, for the moment, > I rather not deal with in the repository. Currently a number of > mirrors have their additional pages as the root of the mirror, > with a link to the mirrored pages. An alterative would be to But if this content were easier to syncronize and build via the CVS repository and our default "build me a set of web pages" toolchain, don't you think that a lot of the regional mirrors would elect to keep their top pages directly under CVS, local tweaks and all? Jordan
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