Hi frans, thanks for the additional consideration. [ Frans Spiesschaert, 2020-09-02 ] > Nevertheless, I just have no idea whether, by acting like this, we will not > make too sudden a break with the past for the target audience of the > manuals and for those educational institutions that may rely on it. Let me > try to explain my concerns in this regard. > If I'm not mistaken the Audacity and Rosegarden manuals are primarily > targeted at classroom teachers, while the ITIL manual is primarily meant > for the school management, and the buster/bullseye manual being helpful in > the first place for the school IT responsible. I don't know if e.g. even > the very concise and outdated Audacity manual might be helpful for teachers > to get started with that program. I honestly have no idea. While the > program itself is indeed translated into the languages of the Debian Edu > founding father's countries, Norway and France, and many other languages, > there are on the contrary no translations at all of the very comprehensive > manual. The same applies to the Rosegarden manual, while this program even > lacks a Norwegian Bokmål translation, e.g. Won't people on the ground feel > themselves deprived of an, admittedly very imperfect, resource? > Given these doubts in me, let me just say that I stay behind your proposals > and that I hope that we will receive signals if it turns out that people on > the ground consider this a too drastic change. I can understand your concerns. But then, the already published manuals will still be available in debian-edu-doc legacy packages (and some not yet published ones, too). > I feel less insecure about treating the ITIL manual the same as you propose > to treat the Audacity and Rosegarden manuals, because for a long time the > ITIL manual has only been possibly meaningful to Norwegian schools in the > absence of an English version. Ok. > > Keep it on wiki.debian.org with a remark like 'Outdated, but still > > useful in parts'. Drop it from weblate. > > So, If I understand this correctly, this means no longer seeking new > translations and translation updates. Yes. Maybe a hint could be placed on weblate concerning the withdrawal of the three manuals with outdated content and the intention to ship complete and almost complete translations via legacy packages. Wolfgang
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