Re: [Gretl-devel] website translations
Hello all (translators),
I admit I haven't read the thread thoroughly, but as a translator (for
German) who hasn't translated the web pages, let me state my opinion: If
a translator chooses to translate also the web pages, it is his (I don't
think there are women in this case) job to check the changes on the site
and to keep the translated pages up to date. Personally I predicted I
wouldn't be able to do this and therefore I did not translate the web
pages (or the manual). IMHO it's counterproductive if Allin has to deal
with these things, it's really a waste of resources.
So if translated web pages are lagging significantly, throw them out.
It's always possible to get them back once they're in shape again,
there's nothing irreversible there.
Thanks,
sven
Am 18.12.2012 00:33, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I'd be very glad to receive suggestions on the best way of keeping
> the translations reasonably up to date.
After thinking about it, here's one proposal. All the specific
timings below are notional and subject to debate.
1) I designate a subset of the gretl web pages in CVS as "core"
pages and publish this list.
2) I set up a cron (automated batch) job to scan the translations of
the core pages each week. If a translation is found to be more than
three months behind the English version then an automatic email is
sent to its author, saying that if the translation is not updated
within a week it will be replaced by the English version.
3) The cron job detects if a page was flagged, as decribed above,
the previous week and has not been updated. If so, it uploads the
English page to sourceforge in place of the translation. (For
example, if the language in question is "xx", it overwrites the
translation, gretl_foo_xx.html, with the English version,
gretl_foo.html.) It could also send out a second email saying that
this has happened.
4) The cron job keeps a list of any pages that have been replaced in
this way, and if an updated version lands in CVS the translated page
is restored on sourceforge.
Allin
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