On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:04:57AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il 21/04/2012 13:09, Graham Percival ha scritto: > >Because snippets come from LSR, and that needs a texidoc to > >display some text for the snippet. > > So it seems that there are only two possible solutions (I'm just > daydreaming): > > 1) manage all the docs snippets in Git and say hello to LSR (see > bottom of my email)
Do you mean "goodbye" instead of "hello" ? > 2) ask the LSR author to add the possibility to insert translated > titles and descriptions (the website itself could benefit from this, > since it may enable language negotiation). But managing the updates > may be a problem.. You'd be asking him to do about 30 hours of unpaid work. > >I really don't see any way to rescue the snippet system. It was a > >gamble that hasn't paid off; it was supposed to be a standalone > > Since the gamble hasn't paid off (i.e. it didn't encourage > *potential contributors*), why keeping this structure that is really > annoying current translators (i.e. *real contributors*)? Because any change involves work. > Personally, I'm a bit worried about going on with translating NR > when I know that keeping it up-to-date will be an hassle. > > Let's manage all the doc snippets in Git and say hello to LSR import! > Which are the arguments against this change? It involves work. In particular, horrible build system work, which always takes an order of magnitude longer than you might expect. Any non-trivial change to the current system will take a minimum of 10 hours of work, and I would not be the slightest bit surprised if it ends up taking 50 hours. Are *you* offering to do all that work? To spend 50 hours, and at the end of all that work, have the documentation look exactly the same as it does right now? I don't see this as a wise investment right now. We have much more urgent problems to tackle. And even if we didn't, I think we could get better "bang for our buck" by putting that amount of energy a different direction. Organizing ly/, organizing the regtests, make Patchy handle automatic countdowns, maybe start GLISS...? there's a *ton* of great projects which would be less work and would produce better rewards. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
