If there is an easy way ( = passive way. Translators are being kept aware of modifications ) to know when some modification is done, and if you do not expect it for the following morning. This should not be a problem at all to keep all the french tutorials up to date.
The best way, perhaps, to be sure all the files are correctly updated in every language is to follow the method used for the docstrings : patches are not accepted unless correctly documented. Translating a few lines in your own language is not that hard, usually, so that does not necessarily mean blocking updates because of a pending translation. Finally, I do not mind translating a text in french for whoever wants to update the tutorial and sends me an email containing the modifications in English. I'll just have to add the french modifications to the patch ! Nathann On Sep 9, 12:35 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> > > wrote: > >> John H Palmieri wrote: > >>> I just noticed that there are some differences between the English and > >>> French tutorials: first, they're written in totally different > >>> languages. > > >>> No, sorry, just kidding. Actually, some paragraphs have been added to > >>> the English version without corresponding changes to the French > >>> version, like the section on "Solving Equations Numerically" in > >>> tour_algebra.rst, and I think some things in distributed.rst. I > >>> haven't done an exhaustive search; maybe the right thing to do is to > >>> see when the French translation was made and then see what changes > >>> have been made to the English version since then. > > >>> How important is it that these documents stay synchronized? If it's > >>> important, how should this be managed? Are there any francophones who > >>> would like to volunteer to make a translation whenever the English > >>> version is changed? > > >>> John > >> Having worked on a chess program which supports a dozen languages, I > >> think it is next to impossible to keep them all syncronised. I note > >> Wolfram Research only have Mathematica for English, Chinese and > >> Japanese. They have not bothered with any of the common European languages. > > >> Whilst I applaud efforts to have translations, I think all such > >> translations should make it clear that in most cases, the English > >> editions will be most accurate and up to date. It's simply not > >> practical, unless there are paid translators, to do such a task. A > >> Wolfram Reserach employee told me it is very expensive to maintain > >> non-English versions of Mathematica. > > > I think you are being too discouraging and negative. What if somebody > > pops up and volunteers to do exactly this for French/English for Sage > > for free? Then your statement "It's simply not practical... unless > > paid" is proven false. > > > William > > I would not be at all surprised if someone offered to do it. I would be > very surprised if they could keep that documentation up to date. The I > feel would be a monumental task. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
