On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Jörg Emmerich wrote: > thank you very much for the detailed response to my proposal - and I > certainly will revisit those items again in the near future. But since > my first proposal, there are some new developments popping up, which I > need to evaluate first in more detail: > > 1) I believe there is no harm when there is a German version in the WIKI > - that will definitely not become the "authoritative raw source" - and > thus may develop into a pure "user-manual, written for and by users". > Without Engineering being responsible for that (but of course they have > the same privileges to change like any user).
I've no problem with that. Personally, I think it would be better to have a complete equivalent Manual in German that was exactly the same as the English version. However, that's a huge amount of work, both for an initial translation, and then keeping up translating any changes to the English version. "crowd-sourcing" a translation to German would at least get the translation done quickly. > 2) George Patterson did a good job challenging me as "devils advocate", > but he also mentioned references to the new developments in > Mediawiki's extensions. In the meantime I did some (theoretical) studies > on those and it seems that with > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection and > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PDF_Writer > we actually can > - create the Manual in small pieces (== unique wiki pages) > - "Collect" any wanted wiki-pages in a "Book", still inside the wiki > - convert that into a PDF -- including page-numbers and a > real Index at the and! That's interesting, and provides some level of equivalency to the current process. I'd need to see some PDF output before I'm convinced though. I suspect the output will look very similar to a printing wiki page, which IMO isn't good enough. I look forward to seeing the result! > So far the theories -- I will try to challenge that with the German > Manual. I suggest to wait for the results of that test and then revisit > the opportunities we have. > > I hope that is acceptable for all of us - again: I will not touch the > "authoritative raw source". On the contrary - I'd be delighted if you were to submit changes to the "autoritative raw source", as you'd be improving The Manual rather than working on a parallel document. :) -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
