[Live-demo] Translate Geomajas documentation

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Matthias,
During the build process, we check to see if translated docs exist, and 
if not, we link to the English documentation.
(See 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/Makefile , 
look for "link_to_en_docs")

A crude way to link to English docs is to remove all out of date 
translation docs.
I would prefer we don't do this, as we are loosing all the hard effort a 
translator has put in place.

A simple and hopefully effective way is to approach the authors of the 
translations of your doc and ask them to update your translations. 
(Check logs for usernames)

A better solution, which will require some programming is to check 
version numbers of English and translated docs, and if translators are 
out of date, then insert a line "Please refer to English documentation 
which is more recent".
This should slot into the Makefile. You can also refer to 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/extract_doc_versions.pl 
which is used to build:
http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/translation_status.html

On 9/08/2014 7:07 am, Matthias Streulens Geomajas wrote:
> Then I should propose to set the documentation all to English.
>
> I try to find out how I can do that.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matthias
>
> On 8 augustus 2014 23:01:54 CEST, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 9/08/2014 1:47 am, Alex Mandel wrote:
>
>         On 08/08/2014 12:22 AM, Matthias Streulens Geomajas wrote:
>
>                 Hello, sadly I saw that the documentation we provided
>                 is not translated correctly from English to other
>                 languages. (Some translations are old rel 1.14 <> rel
>                 1.8) Can someone translate this from English to other
>                 languages? Or should Geomajas do it ourself? The
>                 documentation can be found on the latest release of
>                 the OSGeo 8 dvd. And also here:
>                 http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/overview/geomajas_overview.html
>                 http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/quickstart/geomajas_quickstart.html
>                 If it is not needed to be translated I can set it on
>                 English for all parts. Kind regards, Matthias
>                 Streulens Geomajas Community System Admin 
>
>         The projects are not necessarily responsible for translation
>         of the docs. Additional volunteers from the project or
>         elsewhere are always welcome to contribute. We keep track of
>         translation status on the following pages:
>         http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/lang_stats.html
>         http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/translation_status.html
>         In the event that page is way out of date we can set that
>         particular page to show the English variant instead. For
>         obvious reasons that's our last option. 
>
>     This raises a good point. I wonder whether we could add in a step into
>     our build process which checks the version of translated docs, and if
>     the translation is older than the English version, we inserted a line
>     "This translation has not been updated to the most recent English
>     version. Please compare with the English version for latest details".
>
>     Matthias,
>     Some projects do take responsibility for updating some of the
>     translation pages themselves. However, it is not a requirement.
>

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Cameron Shorter,
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