On 30-07-2020 18:53, Alexey Kovyazin wrote:
On 30.07.2020 16:37, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
While I understand that the Russian version is what we have, I don't
think this 'Russian version first' approach is healthy from a
perspective of ownership (as in, the project being responsible for the
documentation).
Not sure what do you mean.
All documentation is released under IDPL license.
Russian version of LR (versions 2.5, 3.0 and 4.0) is actively used, it
is constantly updated by Denis Simonov (editor and maintainer), and got
good feedback from Russian-speaking community (which is #2 in size,
after Brazil).
That is why I qualified what I meant with ownership, I wasn't talking
about copyright/IP.
And the Russian version is great, and I don't want to diminish that
achievement.
However, the fact is that being in Russian excludes a large part of the
Firebird audience, and I think it is important that the project writes
its own documentation (if only for perception), and 'English first', if
only because that means most of our users can read it.
And if the Firebird 2.5 translation is any indication, translating it
will require a ton of effort afterwards to make it presentable. I'd
rather spent time and effort to write it myself (maybe with some
inspiration and copy/google-translate/paste/edit from the Russian version).
Mark
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