Re: [Gretl-devel] website translations

Dear Allin, I like your proposal. Additionally, I would like to make some suggestions: 1. It would be nice if Gretl home page automatically recognizes the country from where the site is accessed (like google.com does); 2. Instead of http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_portugues.html, we could use a shorter URL like gretl.sourceforge.net/br (or pt, or es, etc.) or even gretl.com/br. What do you think? Best regards, Henrique Andrade Enviado via iPad Em 17/12/2012, às 21:33, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; escreveu: 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 _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel