'Note on translating documentation for KOffice'

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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Note on translating documentation for KOffice
From:       Cyrille Berger <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date:       2009-04-02 15:19:45
Message-ID: 200904021719.46291.cberger () cberger ! net
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Hi,

I would like to advice against translating documentation for KOffice (for the 
moment), the main reason is that those documentation are very outdated, during 
the 2.0, a lot of things have been changed, and the documentation haven't been 
updated.
Also, we are considering moving the editing of the manuals to userbase.kde.org 
(in the hope it will make editing and updating them easier, see [1]). We still 
intend to ship an offline version with each releases, that would include 
translations.

But we are yet unsure how to handle translations of the manuals, as far as we 
can see, there are two options: either keep translations the way they are done 
currently, or also have the translations made on the wiki (since we also want 
to have translations on userbase, we would need some way of synchronisation). 
If you have an opinion/experience on the subject, feel free to discuss it with 
us.

Currently we are just evaluating this, and only KWord's documentation has been 
copied, and will be use as a guinea pig for this experiment.

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-doc-english&m=123619851112835&w=2
-- 
Cyrille Berger

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-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I would like to \
advice against translating documentation for KOffice (for the moment), the main \
reason is that those documentation are very outdated, during the 2.0, a lot of things \
have been changed, and the documentation haven't been updated.<br> Also, we are \
considering moving the editing of the manuals to userbase.kde.org (in the hope it \
will make editing and updating them easier, see [1]). We still intend to ship an \
offline version with each releases, that would include translations.<br> <p \
style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>But \
we are yet unsure how to handle translations of the manuals, as far as we can see, \
there are two options: either keep translations the way they are done currently, or \
also have the translations made on the wiki (since we also want to have translations \
on userbase, we would need some way of synchronisation). If you have an \
opinion/experience on the subject, feel free to discuss it with us.<br> <p \
style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Currently we are just evaluating this, and only KWord's \
documentation has been copied, and will be use as a guinea pig for this \
experiment.<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; \
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>[1] \
                http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-doc-english&amp;m=123619851112835&amp;w=2<br>

-- <br>
Cyrille Berger</p></body></html>

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