Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:42:08 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Stale translations Message-ID: <20010715134208.9F7513E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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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 For certain things, no documentation is better than old, outdated, misleading documentation. Practices and procedures change, and it's better to have somebody ask someone about it instead of being misled by an outdated document.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'm not talking about translations which lag behind the real version for a month or two; we have some that haven't been updated in literally years, and have nobody actively updating them or working on them; some still document RELENG_2_2! 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? Thanks, Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org P.S. This applies equally to the web site translations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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