some issues in docs.fedoraproject.org

Ruediger Landmann r.landmann at redhat.com
Wed Oct 7 02:35:55 UTC 2009


On 10/06/2009 10:22 PM, Domingo Becker wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Ruediger Landmann<r.landmann at redhat.com>:
>    
>> No books were actually changed; only the main index page. Therefore, any
>> errors in any books were already there. In the case of the Installation
>> Guide, since 19 June [1]; and in the case of the Installation Quick Start
>> Guide, since 6 August [2].
>>      
> I remember that. I remember I have asked that before.
> If it's possible to correct it, please do so.
> If you need some more extra work from us, just let us know.
>    

The only way I can see to correct this will be:

* I identify the PO files in Publican that still contain fuzzy and 
untranslated strings even after the big Transifex PO file has been split 
across them
* I email these PO files out to translators
* Translators work on these files and mail them back to me
* I check these files into the repo manually
* I rebuild and republish the books with the updated PO files in place
* We all pray that the next time that we split a big PO file from 
Transifex across the Publican PO files, that it does not break what we 
did in the above steps :)

Basically, we side-step Transifex with a manual process.

If any language team would like to attempt this with the Installation 
Guide and Installation Quick Start Guide, I'm prepared to work with you 
to do this. But I admit that I'm not very eager to "work around" our own 
systems and processes this way :(

As you say later in your email, this is time and effort that we could 
probably all spend in better ways, especially because when we get 
Transifex 0.7, this problem will go away by itself! :) Please make sure 
to file that bug, though.

>>> and the common content.
>>>        
>> As far as I can tell. the only part of the Common Content that ever appeared
>> in English was the Legal Notice, which always appears in English, for legal
>> reasons. Was there something else wrong?
>>      
> No. It seems it's in English for the new books.
> Take a look at [1]
> If there are legal issues about this, then leave it like this.
> Otherwise, it would be better to have that localised.
> I know a wrong translation here would be a problem. But if a
> translator has doubts, then it's better to leave it untranslated.
>
> [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/es/sn-legalnotice.html
>
>    

The Fedora 10 Release Notes were an anomaly; they are the only place 
I've found the Legal Notice ever translated -- it certainly wasn't that 
way in the Release Notes in earlier versions.

I have confirmed with Red Hat's legal department today that this notice 
should not be translated. The reason is simple: in legal matters, the 
/exact/ wording of the notice has consequences. Therefore, if we 
translate the legal notice, the legal department would need to check and 
approve the wording in every language. Unfortunately, the legal 
department simply does not have the resources to do this.

Maybe this should be added to an L10N FAQ somewhere?

Cheers, and thanks for your kind words :)

Ruediger




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