Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Our FAQs are in a really sad state and it#s about time to think about > what we want to do about that because in the current state there are > creating much more harm than good.
[...] > My proposal is to move all the FAQs to the wiki(just with what happened > with the developer FAQ) with the hope that more people get interested in > keeping them up to date and only reference those on the main page that > at least contains "somewhat" accurate information.I honestly believe > that the current state is more damaging that not having any (translated > FAQs) at all. I completely agree that having a bad translation is worse than not having a translation at all. However, enthusiastic people will translate anything you throw at them, and if the tools don't help, the results will be less than ideal; bad formatting, slightly wrong answers, outdated answers. If we move the FAQ to the wiki, the outdated translations will not disappear nor be automatically updated. I claim that if we move them to a translatable framework that helps people notice when the translation is nonexistant or out of date, we will have better results. I proposed this previously but got no support from Bruce who is supposed to be the FAQ maintainer, and thus I ended up doing nothing. Therefore I now offer to do the job required to move them to XML Docbook and allow translatability using xml2po or something similar. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
