Hello all,
Now that peardoc also uses PhD, we need a good method to track revisions for the english version and translations. We need a way to determine if translations are outdated, and if those outdatedness is only minor or a major outdatance. There has been a discussion about this [1], but that was over a year ago and nothing has been done yet. I personally favor the docbook revision attribute for the file's top level tag, with a major and minor rev number. Incrementing the major one determines that big/major changes have been done, while a minor number enhancement tells you that only smaller things have changed. The numbers would be updated manually instead of automatically - which has the advantage that typos can be fixed without bumping the number. When a translation differs in the major number, a big fat warning should be displayed at top of the page. In comparison to the currently used Revcheck comment in the files, the revision attributes can be read programmatically using plain XML libraries, without own parsing scripts. So what do people think now, one year after the last discussion? [1] http://markmail.org/message/3t2pmgoq35h5ogep -- Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Weiske -= Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 =-
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