docs translation

[Rodrigo Del C. Andrade]

	Hello Tammy, Paul and all doc writters and translators.
	First and foremost I wish to say that I'd never participated before of 
any projects of this kind or even had any role on the RH community 
whatsoever, but I am very willing to help and its never late to start, 
so I'll add some cents in this to get the discussion going. Feel free to 
hammer my feelings if you feel like it, I can bear it as long as its 
good for the FC.

Tammy Fox wrote:
> This would be the place. We currently don't have a process for it, but
> I would love to hear your ideas for it such as:
> 
> 1. CVS location -- separate or in the same module as the original version

     The same location has its advantages, but as long as we're talking 
about diferent trees, so no translator would have write access to a 
writer's doc and accidentally do some nasty thing. I know the cvs can be 
"rewinded", but taking vacines is better than antibiotics, isnt it?

	Something like
	
	/
	/en_docs (original)
	/en_docs/burning_cds
	...
	/es_docs
	/es_docs/grabando_cds
	...
	/pt_br_docs
	/pt_br_dos/queimando_cds

	Etc. or the code for each language.
	I am not a CVS expert, and my desk is buried in 3 feet of crap, so what 
you think?


> 2. Method -- there are tools to convert from XML to PO and back to XML -- probably the best choice

	Posting these tools on Translations Project on fedora.redhat.com with 
some, even if small, tutorial/quick guide/tips thingie would be a start, 
I guess.....

> 3. Process for alert translators of new and changed content

	hmm... The docs list?
	Something that bothers me a lil more than this is actually defining 
who's onto what. It would be a waste if 2 ppl get the same doc to 
translate to the same language, without knowing of each others effort. 
We gotta define something about that.

	Well, lets evolve this into a nice organized multi-cultural project!
	Cheers!!!

	Vantroy


> 
> Cheers,
> Tammy
> 
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:59:13AM -0300, Luiz Rocha wrote:
> 
>>  Is here the best place to talk about translation of documentation 
>>(developer's guide, documentor's guide) or is in the fedora-devel list?
>>-- 
>>Luiz Rocha <lsdr at lsdr.net>
>>
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