Re: Making translated doc accesible
Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:
> On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:39:38PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Josip Rodin was going to do this!
> >
> > He got through all of the design and planning phase, I believe, but
> > then stalled out.
>
> Yes. As you may remember (I posted my HOs on -doc [1]) because of small
> number of the docs that would be suitable for this. I looked over most
> docs, and in most of them saw unfinishedness, incompleteness and overall
> below-the-line quality. *sigh*
I don't really see that there *only* being 6 manuals is such a bad
deal. I mean, what happens now is that the poor archive maintainers
or web folks have to do stuff *by hand*.
I suggest we setup a directory in a new location not currently
occupied, and as we move documents over there, so they go, and the old
"by hand" entries are removed. So even if it takes 3 years until we
get a good set of stuff in there, at least we're slowing moving stuff
over and all that.
> > Josip, would it be possible to get kick-started, and complete the work
> > you did to get the DDP CVS area installed automatically into the
> > Debian web areas somewhere?
>
> Well, we could export them all to the right directory right this moment,
> but there are only five (5) docs that would *maybe* be good enough to
> enter the wide world of www.debian.org and its mirrors. The 6 remaining
> are *not* in shape to go anywhere. So we are on -1 :(
So what? It's still worthwhile (see above).
Furthermore, I expect to be adding translations to
developers-reference soon in the same CVS area. So I'm going to
*have* to use this method. If you don't work it out for the whole DDP
I'm going to have to update it by hand (like the Install Manual) and
do all this wasted work.
> How can we resolve this? I don't think just not linking them from
> /doc/index.html would be nice, since the mirrors will mirror it all.
> OTOH, the overall size of all HTMLs in there is just ~600kb.
Huh? I don't understand this...
As I said above, we should just gradually move documents over into a
new web dir area (James can help us pick a name). And as we do this,
we adjust the links from www.debian.org/devel/index.html (well,
actually, cvs:webml/english/devel/index.wml).
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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