On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:03:20AM -0300, Jorge Severino wrote: > How contributed translation doc. a spanish?
We had some experience with translation in the past which was a total failure. I used to write the doc in french only then translate it in english, and maintain the two versions side by side. The result is that the two versions diverged. The reason is simple : you can never expect contributors to update a language they don't speak, so only the language maintainer can do the work and sometimes it's really not easy to understand what the exact feature is (believe me for having had to do many english->french updates on things I didn't understand). We also had a Chinese translation for some time, but the amount of work to keep it up to date caused it to be quickly forgotten and ignored as out of date. It might make sense to have a translation for stable versions which change much less often, but this is still a huge work. Given the size of the doc, I expect at least one month full time to translate it into any language, and you can't really expect to reuse more than half of this work on a new release. So this is a really tedious work! Willy
