Hi, First of all, I'd like to stress that while I am involved somehow into Russian l10n team the person who re-introduced Russian translations of releases/ham/* is not me.
Чт 20 мар 2025 @ 11:27 Thomas Lange <la...@cs.uni-koeln.de>: > I removed the translation for most old releases, because I think it's > not worth to keep these translations. I like to keep only the english > version for old releases. I strongly believe that removing translations is a bad decision. It makes efforts of translation teams invisible. While translations are still in the repository one has to put efforts to find them. So, those removed translations are not visible for a wider audience. Also, it may cause bad feelings in those translators who still work in the respected teams. Guess, it may feel like your work has been thrown in the trash. While I agree that removing outdated translation which are far long not in sync with the originals could be justified, I don't see what justifies removing up-to-date translations of some old pages, even if those pages are kept only for historical means. > Here are some statistics about the russian translation and the english > pages: > > The numbers are GET requests from the last two weeks on all > our web servers, status only 200, excluding a long list of bot names. > > 49055 /releases/ > 775 /releases/index.en.html > 1234 /releases/index.ru.html > > Nearly 50.000 hits for the english version of the main Debian releases > web page which lists a releases. 1234 for russian. Are you sure that 50k is the correct number for the english version? One may request www.debian.org/releases/, but then be redirected to some translation by means of content negotiation. I just don't know whether this ticks both /releases/ and /releases/index.SOMETHING.html. And if it ticks both then those numbers for english version are over-estimated. > Shouldn't the translators spend their time on content which is more > important? Is this a serious question or just rhetorical? > Maybe we need some advice to translator what is important and what not. > Or are rules (more strict) are needed? But what could justify such rules? Saving CPU time? Is it worth it? Best, Lev
