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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Clean up the language docbooks
From:       Burkhard =?iso-8859-15?q?L=FCck?= <lueck () hube-lueck ! de>
Date:       2010-08-15 9:28:47
Message-ID: 201008151128.48095.lueck () hube-lueck ! de
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Am Sonntag, 15. August 2010, um 08:50:13 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> Lĝrdag den 14. august 2010 19:09:13 skrev Burkhard Lück:
> > I see some problems with the language docbooks, see attachments:
> > 
> > * there are around 2000 obsolete language docbooks (english documentation
> > was removed, moved, merged etc...)
> > 
> > * there are a lot of old language docbooks from kde3 and even pre kde3
> > 
> > * language docbooks are not generated together with finished docmessage
> > translations, worst case is a team with always nearly fully translated
> > docmessages, but they apparently don't generate their docbooks regularly
> > and ship around 50% old docbooks, that is crazy...
> > 
> > I mailed several times here about these issues, but the situation isn't
> > getting better...
> 
> I guess the main reason is that some/most teams don't know how to
> (reasonably easily) tell when a docbook is obsolete or outdated.
> 
> > Please cleanup your language docbooks.
> > 
> > Cause I know from my previous mails, that not all teams either read them
> > or don't care about them, I hereby request to let me clean up the
> > language docbooks after one week.
> 
> That would be ok with me.
> 
> But if it'd save you work maybe you could just publish those lists every 6
> months or so, so people can clean up themselves. A good time would be 2-3
> weeks before branching of a new release, so that cleaning up trunk would be
> enough, instead of needing to clean up the same stuff in two branches.

That is not sufficient, the translated documentation (trunk and branch) is 
online on docs.kde.org, updated once a week.

So the language documentations have to be cleaned up and regenerated once a 
week, otherwise it makes no sense to publish them on docs.kde.org. 

-- 
Burkhard Lück

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