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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-9800:
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BTW Olivier,

You know my position on this subject. I'm not strictly against a complete 
translation but I remember previous efforts failed (Hans's mostly). Though it 
was not exactly the same kind of thing, since we tried with the content 
component, I'm still worried about one point: long term maintenance. Because 
there is nothing worse than a wrong documentation which points you to wrong 
links or gives you wrong information.

That's why I suggested a simpler approach: simply having a French main page 
explaining things to our targets. Like it's already in the site and our MLS, I 
see 2 populations: users and developpers. Sincerely I don't think a French dev 
interested by OFBiz needs a translation. OK this is my POV, but it's quite 
pragmatic: for good reason we only officially exchange on OFBiz in English. So 
a developer needs in 1st place to understand English.

Now about users, I believe they don't need to have all the site translated and 
this translation maintained. They need proper information specifically intended 
to them. So yes, it's easy to translate the site. But I believe we should 
rather think before at the population we want to reach and act accordingly. For 
me the French page should be pure marketing, we have the "savoir faire" we need 
to "faire savoir".

Anyway, if a majority of commiters able to understand and wanting to maintain 
at long terms a complete, or even a partial, translation of the site, then I 
would of course follow the majority ...

Also if we want a complete translation why not try 
https://translate.google.com/manager/website/?hl=fr ?

> French translation of ofbizwebsitre
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-9800
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9800
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: site
>            Reporter: Olivier Heintz
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: 404.tpl.php, developers.html, developers.tpl.php, 
> getting-involved.html, getting-involved.tpl.php, header.tpl.php, 
> head.tpl.php, index.html, index.tpl.php, mailing-lists.html, 
> mailing-lists.tpl.php, scripts.tpl.php
>
>
> To evaluate the workload of translate all the ofbiz website page in french, 
> and so to maintain the translation when there are some modifications, I have 
> start to translate them.
> There are between 10 and 15 page to translate, and translate one is between 1 
> and 2 hours.



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