Bon, ben voilà des nouvelles qui me font dire "y'a plus qu'à aider le bonhomme et le problème sera réglé".

---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:29:26 -0500 From: David Merrill david@lupercalia.net To: discuss@linuxdoc.org Subject: Re: Some ideas on General Style

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:55:09AM +0200, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:

FWIW, the french LDP team is currently discussing moving to fr.tldp.org and integrating more tightly with en.tldp.org. David (Merril), we would like to get access to "your" database, be able to add a table of translators, generate HTML progress reports from the result of SQL queries, send announces of documents updates to mailing-lists, etc. That's a short-term goal (weeks).

I will be working on i18n support during this week and next. I am on schedule, currently I estimate I will have a usable release ready in about 6-10 weeks. (I originally estimated 2-3 months, about 3-4 weeks ago).

This is longer than your desired timeframe. If you can help me write the code, then the time could be reduced, but if I do it all myself it will probably take that long.

And that does not include some of the features you are requesting. I will do them, but will need to think about the best way to do it.

A longer-term goal (months) is for french-speaking documentation authors to contribute documents written in french and have french-speaking (not necessarily native) translators translate them in english to make them available for a wider audience.

On this list, we quite often discussed simplifying the input format of the documents, in order to ease the life of contributors. But to many, writing in english is a high fence to jump, hence accepting documents from several languages and having translators to english (or directly other languages), would IMHO help increase the number of authors, the number documents and the quality of documents. If I speak french only but can get help to improve my document by communicating with chinese contributors via the LDP and its translators, that's a good thing, isn't it?

Yes. Lampadas will not be English-centric. Submissions in any language are accepted, and can be translated to any other language. ----------------------------------------------------

Je vais lui demander ce qu'on peut faire pour lui. Rendez-vous sur i18n@en.tldp.org :-)