On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:36:42 +0100, Thomas Lange<la...@cs.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>Hi Andreas, > >I've removed those pages maily because they contain outdated obsolete >content from very old releases and people put time into maintainig >them, what I think is not worth it. I think it's sufficient to keep less >information about these releases and only in english. > >I don't know if the translators missed the information. >They may have a different opinion which information about old releases >are usefull for our users. > >I don't think it's worth putting time into re-adding those pages or >translating old web pages. In the past I saw multiple efforts of >translators to work old security announcements for e.g. >There are even efforts to translate voting web pages from 2010 and before. > >I would like to encourage translators to do work on more important >(from my point of view) pages or topics. I think translators could do >more review of content, and help finding outdated content, outdated >manuals, broken links, obsolete listings off CD vendors, obsolete >listings of vendors of pre-installed computers,.... Well, I thought that the pages were deleted to make the build faster, but now you say that is not case, but to make people work on "more important" pages. I understand that point of view, but it seems pretty counter-intuitive to remove translations for languages where there's 0 pages that are out of date. If they were deleted to make the build faster I would at least understand it. Especially if the only reason is to make people translate more important pages and not out of date stuff. Deleting translations is a lousy motivator to get more pages translated. (And yes, I do know that I can get the deleted files back from the git repo, but as it is now I don't have much motivation to do so). -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se andr...@ronnquist.net (please don't CC me, I read the list).
