Ideally, every part of Debian, including the web site would be available in every language. Of course, this is not likely to happen in the near future.
I have been thinking about what the purpose of intro/international should be and here are my thoughts. Comments appreciated. The top of the page should give information on what is involved in adding support to Debian for a new language. This includes links to debian-www, debian-boot and debian-doc (any others needed?). There will also be a link to the HOWTO_translate document. There should be an entry for every language that Debian supports. Support here simply means that we provide at least some Debian documentation in that language. Every entry should give information on the following: - that languages user mailing list. We should encourage every language to have one. - links to any Debian related info in that language that is not already incorporated into the site. - names and address of translation coordinators - URLs for any Debian user groups that use that language - anything else? These sections would be maintained by the translators. It is permissible to use lang= tags to add text in the section using the relevant language for that entry. Any comments? Should the entries be kept only in english/intro/international.data and included from each translation of the intro? My concern is everyone will be updating their own enty , but find it a pain to deal with the other entries constantly changing. There are two possibilities that come to mind. Each entry use slices to create an English version and one in their native language. Thus, the english version of the page will contain all the entries, but the translated ones only the entry for that language. The other possibility is to have every language include the text for their entry twice - once in English and once in their native language. This would mean every entry would appear in every translation (twice in fact). What do people think? Jay Treacy
