One of the reasons I installed the i18n module into Planet Cocoon was
that I noticed internationalisation mentioned as a feature the "Doco"
proposal, which Antonio recently linked to at the end of this long
thread about documentation (http://www.planetcocoon.com/en/node/1969):
http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/Doco
I agree, it would be easier for everyone (who speaks good English) if
we removed this requirement!
Mark
On 26 May 2005, at 08:45, Stavros Kounis wrote:
how easy is to keep up-to-date documents in more tha one language?
lets say that we have now someone to translate docs to a particular
language, are we sure that in few months any volunteer will exist to
keep those docs up-to-date ?
it will be greate for me (for example) to read cocoon's documentation
in greek but out-of-date docs in greek are worst.
--stavros
On 5/26/05, Linden H van der (MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A more general question: what sort of demand do you think
there is for
translations of the documentation? Any particular languages?
Being Dutch, and therefore used to use other people's language rather
than my own to get in contact with someone, I'm probably not
representative for the entire community.
I however feel that there should be as little effort put into
translation of documentation as possible. Cocoon itself is in English,
the common language of the mailing lists is English (and therefore the
documentation) and 99% of the documentation of the 'external' (i.e.
non-Cocoon development) components are in English, 99.9% of any
documentation on IT projects is in English.
So, if you want to use Cocoon, you need to understand English. If you
do, what benefit is there in a translated version of a document?
I'm a Translator School graduate, so I know how much effort a good
translation takes and it only adds up to the total number of documents
to maintain. NOTE: there is no such thing as an automated translation
of
good quality, so all effort is manual.
I'd rather have this effort put into writing good/better/missing
English
docs.
Bye, Helma
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