From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 15 13: 2: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD7B37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:01:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6FK1Ut49562; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: dima@unixfreak.org Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale translations In-Reply-To: <20010715134208.9F7513E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010715134208.9F7513E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010715130130F.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:01:30 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: Dima Dorfman Subject: Stale translations Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:42:08 -0700 > This has probably been brought up before, but I can't find anything in > the archives: what do we do about stale translations? For certain > things, no documentation is better than old, outdated, misleading > documentation. Practices and procedures change, and it's better to > have somebody ask someone about it instead of being misled by an > outdated document. I don't think we really have any "standard practice" for this yet, actually, since you're the first to raise it seriously. That makes the issue yours now, sorry. ;-) > So, what can we do about them? We can obviously remove them; the > original translators probably won't like this, but we can always bring > them back if somebody wants to work on them. Another alternative > would be to post a big warning on the front of each document saying > it's so obsolete as to be nearly useless (we'd need to find somebody > who speaks the language, which may not be easy). Anything else? I think you need to try and contact the authors to see what they want done - in many cases, this will be sufficient to generate a burst of updating effort which is, of course, the most desirable fix. If a month or two elapses (long enough to cover the length of a typical European vacation ;) without any response, you might deem that equivalent to the "I have no interest in maintaining this translation, please kill it" response, in which case it would probably then be prudent to post a *MAJOR* 'heads up' message to -doc and possibly even -announce which spells out the impending death of the Foo language translation. At that point, one of two things will happen: Some speaker of foo will emerge going "No! No! I'll take it!" or you'll get no response at all, clearly showing you the next move to take. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message