Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 12:45:39AM +0200, Simon Paillard a écrit : > > WML is really used (from the easy use, variable substitution for > releases names, version, release date, to conditional use,etc.), see > english/template/debian for example: > http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/webwml/english/templa

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-08-05 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:21:29AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:25:08AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit : > > the people complaining about wml did not mention what > > the issues were and did not propose an alternative. > > What I learn in Debian I use elsewhere, and wh

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-08-04 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Plessy wrote: > What I learn in Debian I use elsewhere, and what I learn elsewhere I use > in Debian. There are exceptions such as WML, which seems to be a dead end. ... > I am exploring how possible it would be to use the markdown syntax through > ikiwiki to reproduce the pages under /deve

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:25:08AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit : > > the people complaining about wml did not mention what > the issues were and did not propose an alternative. Hi Andrei, What I learn in Debian I use elsewhere, and what I learn elsewhere I use in Debian. There are exceptions

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
[For unknown reasons this mail did not show up (yet?) on debian-www. Not snipping anything for context] On Vi, 30 iul 10, 13:03:09, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Andrei! > > You wrote: > > > As soon as you have all translatable material in .po format it should be > > possible to write (or adapt ex

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 30 iul 10, 10:06:53, Charles Plessy wrote: > > What I am saying is that if there is no way to automatically convert from WML > to whichever format makes a consensus, then I am willing to do the work by > hand > for the pages under /devel/debian-med. And this for the translations as well, >

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-29 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:19:47PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > * Charles Plessy [2010-07-29 16:53:18 CEST]: > > Le Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:32:54PM +0300, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > > > * 2010-07-23 00:27 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > in my opinion, it is not only a questi

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Gerfried, Le Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:19:47PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > > I actually don't welcome changes that tell > our translators technicly: "Thanks for your effort so far, but we throw > it all away." I would like to be clear. I do not propose, and have never proposed, to throw

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-29 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Charles Plessy [2010-07-29 16:53:18 CEST]: > Le Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:32:54PM +0300, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > > * 2010-07-23 00:27 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: > > > in my opinion, it is not only a question of design, but of > > > infrastructure. For me, the combination of CVS

When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:32:54PM +0300, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > * 2010-07-23 00:27 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: > > > in my opinion, it is not only a question of design, but of > > infrastructure. For me, the combination of CVS and WML finally eroded > > all my motivation over the years for