Hi Jens,
From: Jens Seidel
Subject: Re: Please commit 70 revisions of Japanese translation updates of the Etch Release Notes
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:15:53 +0200
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:10:57AM +0900, Kobayashi Noritada wrote:
> > Japanese translators are pleased to announce that the Japanese version
> > of the Etch Release Notes is ready, although it has passed so much
>
> thanks.
First of all, thank you very much for committing so many revisions. :-)
> > time since the release of Etch. Could you please commit 70 revisions
> > of Japanese translation updates for the Etch Release Notes that I've
> > stored locally, and also make Japanese translation as active?
>
> I think it's a good idea to commit patches separately but to be honest I
> think it's not necassary to do it so fine grained ...
Hmm... I separated the change into many patches because many
contributors (translators and reviewers) did many contributions.
Also, by separating, I can view logical changes easily. However, it
was too large for me to ask you commit... Sorry.
I wish if we could use some distributed version control system to
manage these documentation needing translation works. Distributed
version control systems make sending many patches easily (without
using mailing lists). The key point is that all contributors can do
commit changes although they does not have commit access to the
official repository. It was painful for me to ask you to download and
commit many changes. OTOH it was also very hard for me to merge many
comments from many reviewers via the Japanese mailing list since those
comments were not in the form of patches but in the form of plain text
(although it was because I made a mistake that I didn't ask them to
send patches).
We can ease translation management by using distributed version
control systems like this:
(Official repository)
<-> (Official-repository committer's repository)
<-> (Language coordinator's repository)
<-> (Translator's repository)
<-> (Reviewer's repository)
Many thanks,
-nori
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