d-i manual: add warning and call for help on outdated translations
Package: installation-guide
Severity: wishlist
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@debian.org> wrote:
> 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 spoken not outdated (changed paragraphs fall-back to english), but it of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?
>
> Even though the documents are not translated fully some content might still
> be useful.
>
> Also, showing that the translation is not finished, but partial, might
> actually spur some people to take it over.
Good point.
> I think it would be best to keep the languages and try to find a way to
> (automatically) add a disclaimer to the top of the document saying something
> like: "This document is not fully translated and it is not actively being
> updated. If you can help please contact xxxxx"
Yes, good idea.
I will prepare a patch as proposal for that soon.
> When I mean automatically I mean that the text should be added when the PO
> statistics show a large part of the content untranslated.
Hmm, as first variant I will start with a fix setting.
Such automatism is probably out of my skills, we will see.
To track it, I turn this into a bugreport with this mail.
Holger
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