Nadya, That's great! Your passion to frequent commits is the most welcome. BTW, this week I taught a QA course [1] in Novosibirsk. As a practical exercise we formed several groups and inspected contributor guide [2] in Russian. I've put formal inspection notes in HARMONY-5298 and hope you'll find some of them worth to be fixed.
[1] http://www.tekama.com/index.php?page=72 [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5298 On Dec 6, 2007 11:24 PM, Nadya Morozova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > My attention has been focused again on Harmony activities. Let's use this > spell of good weather to do something for the website. I've been working to > implement a Russian-language base of the website based on our previous > discussion in this thread. > > I apologize if my frequent commits are bothering you or if the changes I > made crush something. I haven't had time for extensive testing yet. Please > report errors so I address them quickly. > > What I've done so far: > - index.ru.html > - quickhelp_users.ru.html > - quickhelp_contributors.ru.html > -- RU | EN controls at the top > - bundles.ru.html > - var files for each of these > > Help wanted with > - index.ru.html - translating news items > - downloads.cgi - translation essential > - cmd_options.html - translation essential; this is a very technical page, a > Russian-speaking engineering wanted > - review of current pages > - tuning the functioning of user-preference settings: > -- the address http://harmony.apache.org/ is now pointing to the > index.html file, which is in English. Can we edit .htaccess so that it > points to index.var instead? this way, the user will get the page in the > preferred language > -- what about links in the nav pane - should they be pointing to .var > files when a translated version of a page is available? > > The "clever" functionality includes .var files for the 4 created .ru > versions. If you go to harmony.apache.org/index.var, it'll show you the > English version, or Russian - if your browser preferences show Ru to be the > preferred language. The same works for all the other files. Links between > .ru versions are to other .ru pages, if there's a translation available. > > The "dumb" part is switching between paragraphs: a right-aligned text with > links. I failed to think of something cleverer that does not involve editing > the site .vsl template. A neater solution is welcome. Do you think we need > flags to set off languages better? > > I'm really new to this .var files and .htaccess capacities of the Apache > server. I am sure to have missed some important points, so please help me > finish this. > > Once we establish the workflow for adding a new translated page or a page in > a new language (I hope Chinese and other languages are queueing up now), I > can write a README with the essential steps. > > Your suggestions and corrections are much appreciated, > thanks, > nadya > -- With best regards, Alexei, ESSD, Intel
