On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 23:53, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I was thinking of switching from Docbook to Mallard for 3.6 (I didn't >> >> have time to prepare this for 3.4 already). >> >> The advantages of "GNOME 3 page style" are unclear to me currently, >> >> Advantages of moving over to using Wordpress for the release notes >> (that I can think of): >> > > My main objection would be translation. One of the problems is that I would > like to see our content/news/release notes translated so that we can have > greater coverage. I feel that english makes us somewhat limited. > > At least, let's agree that if we do it on wordpress that we have it in > English and Spanish.
IMHO translation is essential for introductions, presentations, overviews, news, release notes and such. These are the documents that can reach people who do not know/use GNOME. There should not be language barriers for potential new adopters. I like all the WP benefits listed, though it would be a severe regression to leave translation behind. So, what does supporting translation implies? Is it about 1. getting the right plugin https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+multilingual 2. interfacing with DL workflow (po files, git) Or? > > sri > >> >> 1. The notes will be on gnome.org rather than under >> library.gnome.org/misc (why are the notes for our new release in a >> 'library'? why are they 'miscellaneous'?) >> >> 2. Avoid the bookishness of the format (sub-headings everywhere, >> boxes of links interrupting the flow of the document), which is rather >> stilted. >> >> 3. Allow embedding of richer media, such as lightboxes, image >> galleries and videos. >> >> 4. Allow flexible design, facilitating a more stylish and attractive >> layout. >> >> 5. Allow division of the notes into separate pages, rather than being >> a single *huge* page. >> >> >> however I would first have to know what markup language this move would >> >> imply, >> >> Wordpress reduces the need for markup. The only markup you need is >> html for formatting and embedding media, plus for bits of fancier page >> layout. >> >> >> plus if anybody would be actually willing to prepare this move. >> >> Actually writing the notes and doing the markup would be less work >> than with Docbook or Mallard, so in that respect we'd save time and >> effort. However, we would need a bit of extra help on the web >> development side if we wanted to make the notes look really nice. >> >> > I'm interested in this as well. As Shaun noted about translations I >> > would >> > like to see this translated in as many languages as possible. >> > >> > We'll need to start on this soon. >> >> Most of the pieces are in place to make gnome.org translatable using >> the standard GNOME infrastructure. We just need to hook it up to damn >> lies [1]. I've spoken to Vinicius and he's confident that we can have >> it ready in time to get the release notes translated. >> >> Allan >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671647 >> -- >> IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org >> Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list