I like the multilingualness is general... but in this case I think Grant is correct about non-primary language docs getting outdated quickly. It's hard to keep even just English docs up to date! And stale, incorrect docs are worse than no docs.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > To: solr-dev@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 3:11:33 PM > Subject: Re: Contributing Translations > > First off, let me say that I would love to see translations of Solr docs. > > My main concern is one of maintainability. If we agree to commit > translations, > then we as committers need to be able to maintain them as well. I am not > sure > which is worse, no translations or out of date translations. > > Say, for example, that I make a patch that changes how the spell checker > works > in Solr. As an English speaker, I can easily update the English docs as part > of > my patch, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with, say, Swahili (picking > a > language I feel safe saying that none of our committers speak for an example, > not b/c anyone is proposing a Swahili translation). So, now, it is up to the > community to fix that documentation. Which, is, of course, fine, except I'd > venture to say most committers wouldn't even be in the position to know > whether > the patch is good, so we'd have to take it on faith. Committing on faith > isn't > usually a good thing. > > We should look into how other Apache projects handle it before committing to > saying we are going to support other languages. I can ask over on > commun...@apache.org if people would like. > > On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Green Crescent Translations wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm a project manager for Green Crescent Translations and I'm always > > looking > to assist the open source community by providing translations of web sites, > manuals, user interfaces and such. If you're interested, please let us know. > > We'd be happy to translate you web site documentation into needed languages. > Just let me know which languages and what texts are essential and we'd be > happy > to help. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jonathan > > > > > >
