Re: mindelta/maxdelta

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some questions about translation of Debian webpages.
> My question is about "mindelta" and "maxdelta" found at
> http://www.debian.org/devel/website/uptodate .
> 
> 1. 
> What is the difference between "mindelta" and "maxdelta"?
> Only the nuance of "aged" and "outdated"?  (I feel some
> difficulty to translate this nuance into Japanese).  Or,
> any concrete difference of implementation of wml?  (I
> extracted the source package of wml and invoke
> "grep -i mindelta" but it failed.)

Try understanding english/template/debian/translation-check.wml.
The source should explain it.  Quoting:

#    mindelta="number"
# which defines the maximum difference in CVS revisions before the
# translation is considered aged. The default value is 2. For important
# pages, set it to 1, which means that every change is considered making the
# translation aged. The value for the <aged> tag is displayed.
#
#    maxdelta="number"
# which defines the maximum difference in CVS revisions before the
# translation is considered to be outdated (and the value of the <outdated>
# tag is displayed). The default value is 5. For very important pages, set
# it to be less. A value of 1 means that every change is considered making
# the translation outdated.

So you have two cases:

 1. page is aged, msg "The original is newer than this translation" (mindelta)
 2. page is out-dated, msg "This translation is too out of date" (maxdelta)

Take a look at http://people.debian.org/~joey/webwml/de.html, section 'Out-dated...'
Maybe that sheds some light on the issue

Regards,

	Joey

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