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Re: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?


From: Catonano
Subject: Re: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 12:00:04 +0100



2018-03-02 17:47 GMT+01:00 ng0 <address@hidden>:
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 4.8K bytes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> What about allowing posts on help-guix in one of the languages that
> regular contributors know, in addition to English?
>
> The alternative would be to create separate language-specific lists, but
> some (rightfully) think there’s a risk of a disconnect with actual
> developers.
>
> Of course it’s hard to tell what a multilingual mailing list will be
> like, but I think it’s worth experimenting (and I don’t expect a
> significant change overnight).  If we are to reach out to more people,
> allowing them to use the language they know best is the minimum we can
> do IMO.
>
> WDYT?
>
> To experiment with this on help-guix, I propose the patch below for the
> web site.  If you’re a committer, please provide a translation for the
> language(s) you know!

Oh... does this mean the translation function for the website is now in place?
It looks like it is from the patch content, or am I wrong?

On topic: I think it's too much to suggest to include something that indicates
the language of the post in the subject?

> Ludo’.
>

> diff --git a/website/apps/base/data.scm b/website/apps/base/data.scm
> index 0abcc7a..4ccca9a 100644
> --- a/website/apps/base/data.scm
> +++ b/website/apps/base/data.scm
> @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
>  ;;; Data.
>  ;;;
>
> -
>  (define contact-media
>    (list
>     ;; The first three will be featured in the home page.
> @@ -30,12 +29,18 @@
>     (contact
>      #:name "Help Mailing List"
>      #:description
> -    '(p
> -      "Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the
> -      GuixSD and GNU Guix community via email. "
> -      (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00584.html"))
> -      "Until December 2015")
> -      ", the Guix-devel mailing list filled that role.")
> +    `(("en"
> +       "Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GuixSD
> +and GNU Guix community via email.  You can post messages in English though we
> +also accept other languages.")

("it"
  "Iscrivetevi alla mailing list 'Help' per essere aiutati da altri utenti di Guix e GuixSD.
Potete scrivere sulla mailing list anche in italiano ")

 
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