>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Di Carlo) writes:
>> NABETANI Hidenobu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I propose that Debian-specific man pages should be managed in CVS, >> > which has the following good feature: >> > >> > * Of course, many good feature of CVS. >> > * The package maintainers can easily get the translated man pages >> > for their packages. >> > >> > I have already translated some Debian-specific man pages to Japanese. >> > To maintain them up-to-date and easily commit them to the maintainer, >> > they should be managed in CVS, I think. >> We have no authority to dictate to maintainers how they should go >> about managing their own sources. I can only say that we freely offer >> use of cvs.debian.org for any debian project -- I think this helps >> translators of the developers-reference, boot-floppies, and other >> various DDP documentations. >I suppose that nabetani's proposal is not to dictate to maintainers, >but to provide the integrated working place for translators. > >Of course, if the source for package is managed by CVS, and if the translators >can get the account to access there, it is welcome for the translators. We already provide the DDP CVS area. What else can we do? >But if it is not the choice by the maintainers, it may be better >to gather the work of translators from all over the world into one >integrated place that to split them scattered, becuase it may reduce >the work for the maintainers when he decide to update their translated >manpages. He can do it simply by getting current translated version >from the CVS. If he put his new original manpages into that CVS, then >the translators will work for his upcoming new version. The maintainers >does not need to import the whole of his source code into CVS. > >Or Do I have misunderstand ? Please tell me if I have. Thanks. No, you don't misunderstand, I'm just pointing out we already have this infrastructure available. What's next is just to maybe setup a new module -- I'd be happy to set one up for you in cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-doc if you like -- and convince maintainers to use it if they want to. I object to any attempt to *require* this practice however. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
