On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 12:16:08PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Run it off the regular CVS servers. Let pages get translated with small > > diffs. If I want to translate just one sentence, why not? Eventually the > > whole page will be done (many people contributing, not just one person) > > and only need small updates. > > The many fingers myth.
Hmm, I guess the ports tree with small regular updates, often by different people isn't many fingers. Dropping maintainership for X ports, anyone want to take over? > > It actually does no produce useable results. It was impeding other > changes. People didn't want to improve things because it would hurt > the translation effort. I don't understand this. Impeded what? Example: You are in a building that just started to burn down. Someone shouts "felfh lldowc plop" to you. Huh? You die. Someone shouts "building out down fire, go!" you live. This isn't source code. Doesn't need perfection. > > > Perhaps some ports for base commands only? man --lang=es rm or something > > like that? How many minutes to just add a translation for rm, mv and cp? > > Are you kidding? Who does that help? Who? Who does it hurt? It was just a thought. But I translate my English web pages into Spanish at my convenience. Books get edited slowly. First edition, second edition, third edition. Ports are hardly do or die. They get dropped when not maintained. > > > Regularly I see people wanting something helpful to do, but they can't > > program C or this or that, etc. This would give something for > > non-developers to do and feel good about. > > The project as a whole does not exist to "make non-developers feel > good". A soup kitchen is what you are looking for. > I don't really care who does it. If I get something I want, then I win. These things are lots of work. I don't have time to change the world. So if this gets done, I get something I can use. I'll throw in what I can towards it when I have free time. Chris Bennett
