On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, :-) > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:36, Michael Wheatland > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have had a bit of a brainstorm here. It will take a few days to put >> together the idea proposal so people understand it, but I should have >> it out by boxing day. It deals with documentation development across >> languages, feeding back into an approval system per language. > > That will be interesting to read. But, hopefully, it will be > concretely implementable in a fairly short time. Also, it might want > to take the following into consideration: > > Sophie explained to me that, typically, in Open Source projects, > English is usually the "root" language for development and all other > processes around the core development, and that localization tends to > simply be a process of translating all that has been produced in > English. > > But, she explained, in LibreOffice, there is a drive towards giving > each NL project independence in producing its own content, in the form > it thinks is best - even though an English version of a content may be > offered as a possible working base, if the NL project wants to adopt a > "translation-based" approach rather than an "own-creation" approach. > > You can see this in the SilverStripe website, on which each NL project > gets a sub-site that it's free to structure and people with content as > it sees fit. For example, the French or German NL projects are not in > any way obliged to have a site structure that is a "clone" of the > English structure. They might adopt a quite different IA for > communicating with their user base and servicing its needs. > > (I must say that I rather like these ideas.) > > So we'd be looking for a system that caters to this autonomy. > > HTH. > > P.S. When we're talking about NL, we're talking about *languages* not > "national/political" boundaries. > > David Nelson
I don't want to go into too much detail until the proposal has been developed fully, as it may give people the wrong idea, as has happened here before, but let me assure you that this idea is based solely on that idea whilst maintaining the benefits of the workflow that Jean proposed early on in the process for the English documents. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
