On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Philip Olson <phi...@roshambo.org> wrote: > >> > I sent a mail to the doc...@lists.php.net, no reply yet. >> > As you can see, the hungarian translation is pretty abadoned: >> > http://news.php.net/php.doc.hu >> > >> > So I'm afraid that maybe my svn request won't be approved or granted >> karma without an active hungarian translation group member. >> > Could this be a problem, or I should simply wait some more? >> >> The main reason to write mailing lists of inactive languages is to see if >> anyone is sleeping, as sometimes people wake up and decide to help out. Who >> knows, your email to doc-hu@ still has time! >> >> Having an active group member present is nice but certainly not required, >> especially for inactive languages. But the standard procedure before >> receiving an account (and associated karma (commit rights)) is to do some >> work first. Please have a look here: >> >> - http://wiki.php.net/doc/howto/gettingstarted >> >> Basically it means you do some translating, show us, and then you join in >> on the fun. See if the above helps and please feel free to ask questions. >> >> Also, let's keep this only on the doc list starting *click* now. >> >> Regards, >> Philip > > > Hi Philip, I didn't got reply from the doc-hu mailing list. > I've started to read trough the documenation about the current phpdoc > infrastructure (configure.php, phd, etc.), but I have some question. > for gettint familiar with the tools, I wanted to build the english > documentation, but it didn't get throught the xml validation (php > doc-base/configure.php reported xml related problems, and the build aborted > ). > is this normal? or it just happened that there are some problems with the > current trunk for the english language? > > my other problem is that the hungarian documentation was abadoned a few > years ago, and I don't know how should I proceed with that. > I can see two different path: merge/branch the current english > documentation and start copypasting/translating the hungarian translations, > so basically this would go from scratch. > the other possible way would be to start refactoring the current > documentation, only focusing on the build problems, this way the hungarian > docs could be built in the near future, but the content could/would be > old/obsolete. :/ > for the record there are many pages with missing or n/a EN-Revision :( > and of course there are the possible unseen problems (syntax changes, pages > were spitted/merged, maybe some problems with the cvs->svn upgrade, or the > utf8 transitional etc.) > > maybe the guys from the spanish and russian documentation team (Yago and > Alexey) could help me with their experience, they were given with a really > similar problem as me: resurrecting an old translation project. > > if I can find out what would be the best way to proceed, I can get help > from the hungarian php community with the translation, but I don't want to > start gathering ppl, while I'm not sure what to do. > > Thanks for your help. > > Tyrael > hi. about the build error for the english documentation: r305566 fixed the build problem (which I tried to fix localy, but didn't found out first, that the domxml/libxml stuff doesn't use the php memory limit see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42968 so after my fix, the OOM killer started to kill my php process :P), so I successfully built the english manual at least. \o/ Tyrael
