Re: Make doc; create-weblinks and translations

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Make doc; create-weblinks and translations
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>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I noticed that a lot of half-translated Czech pages contain a lot of
>> stuff from the _German_ translation.  Now I don't know just the
>> percentage of people in the Czech republic that would get along better
>> with German rather than English, but the copied German passages are
>> probably by now more outdated than their source (which is already
>> downstream from the English one in terms of timeliness as well as
>> naturalness of expression).
>>
>> At any rate, the question for me is whether we should not remove
>> languages from the web altogether that are not actively maintained
>> and/or reasonably complete.  It is misleading to characterize them as
>> "manuals for 2.17" when they have not seen work since 2.12 or something.
>
> I believe many Czechs are also decent German speakers - I'm not, but
> at times I did better in Prague in German than English.  However, we
> do seem to have English as a default, so maybe it's better to use this
> when we have _no_ translation.
>
> As for getting rid of unmaintained output - I agree on balance.  It
> would be interesting to be told which languages are actively
> maintained and which are moribund.  I expect getting them out of the
> build system to be as easy as getting a new one in.  i.e. hard....

I'd not want to have them removed them from the build system.  Just stop
linking to them and/or offering versions on our web pages.

-- 
David Kastrup