Re: translations for d-i manual [ Was: Re: Status of D-I translations... ]
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 08:48:47PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> > It means that we're indeed left with about only 10 languages that
> > happen to be complete -> those where translators act on their own and
> > know what to do to get a fully translated D-I.
> >
> > For others, most of the time, the registered person with commit access
> > either vanished or doesn't care anymore for D-I to be fully
> > translated.
>
> The situation for the d-i manual is similar: we have some languages,
> that did not receive no or nearly no translation updates since the
> release of Wheezy.
> Should those languages be deactivated?
> These are: japanese (no update since 17 months)
> russian (no update since 24 months)
> swedish (no update since 2 years 7 months)
> vietnamese (no update since 2 years 7 months)
> chinese zh_CN (no update since 2 years 3 months)
> All of them are po-based translations, so the manuals are strictly
> spoken not outdated (changed paragraphs fall-back to english), but it of
> no good use for users probably?
Well, if I had a choice between a manual thta was all in a foreign
language and one that was half in a foreign language and half in mine,
I'd prefer the one that was half in mine.
-- hendrik
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