Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:58:04 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: dannyman <dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org>, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@opt.phys.waseda.ac.jp>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Move handbook to doc/en/handbook as part of DTD migration? (was Re: LINUXDOC_2_DOCBOOK_BP branch applied to doc/handbook) Message-ID: <26597.891421084@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:23:24 %2B0100." <19980401092324.11179@iii.co.uk>
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> I think it does make sense for there to be one 'canonical' version of the > Handbook from which all other translations are derived. So far, that's > the English version, and will probably continue to be, if for no other I am of two opinions on this one. One opinion says that if there are some Japanese folks (just for example) who have some *great* ideas for improving the Japanese FAQ & Handbook but can only apply these ideas to the Japanese version then those ideas should not be held back just on account of the english version. Our docs situation is bad enough without making the situation worse by being inflexibly wedded to some syncronization model. The other opinion says that without a reasonably canonical version of these docs, chaos can be the only eventual result and we'll also be depriving ourselves of a decent body of english-language documentation which has far more international value (as a "lingua franca" ;-) than any of the translated versions. I guess the only practical approach to take here is a pragmatic one, considering how few volunteers we have for docs. If we can get folks to improve *any* of the docs significantly beyond what we have now, we take it regardless of the language. If we can also get folks to understand the importance of the english docs, hopefully so much so that they put significant work into making the english docs a better "template version" for all their own work (my fondest wish, you see), then we'll have won the game. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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