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Re: translations for d-i manual [ Was: Re: Status of D-I translations... ]



Hi all,

and sorry for the lag in replying to this thread.

A quick word about Danish, re-enabled in:
 69659  sthibault da	Danish

(according to svn blame debian/langlist).

Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> (2015-03-12):
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 08:48:47PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > 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 spoken not outdated (changed paragraphs fall-back to english), but it of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.

Yeah, I guess keeping the translations enabled means we have a chance
of being useful to some people; seeing clearly partial and/or outdated
translations might give some motivation to potential contributors as
well.

I'm no psychologist though…

Mraw,
KiBi.

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