Re: list of machines for developers

1999-05-04 Thread peter karlsson
> Since the language of developer's communication is English, I don't see > the point in translating development documents. I'd rather see people > focus on the pages intended for a more general audience. Personally, I prefer to have as much information available in my native language as is possib

Re: Font entries not suitable for non-English languages

1999-05-04 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:27:32PM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > Hi all, > > Someone pointed out to me that when they view the Chinese main page with > Netscape navigator the characters on the left hand side navigation bar > all becomes symbols. > This may be due to the use of this FONT tag that i

Re: Making translated doc accesible

1999-05-04 Thread James A. Treacy
It is always better for the group responsible for something to maintain it. Thus, someone from the DDP should be maintaining the pages under /doc (in the ftp archive, on the web site and under /usr/doc on machines). This would ensure a consistent naming policy and structure to the documents (which

Re: list of machines for developers

1999-05-04 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 11:25:53AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Just added it for you. After the next mirror update it will be available > > at http://www.debian.org/devel/machines . It has also been linked from the > > developer's page. > > Speaking of which, shouldn't this too have a separat

Font entries not suitable for non-English languages

1999-05-04 Thread Anthony Wong
Hi all, Someone pointed out to me that when they view the Chinese main page with Netscape navigator the characters on the left hand side navigation bar all becomes symbols. This may be due to the use of this FONT tag that is being used in english/template/debian/menubar.wml: Will it be possibl

Re: Virtual packages list (fwd)

1999-05-04 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I think it is provided by the debian-policy package (available in all Debian systems in /usr/doc/debian-policy)... manoj has said he will take this package and remove Christian (maybe adding debian-policy or himself, since he is the package maintainer) Regards Javi On M

Re: list of machines for developers

1999-05-04 Thread peter karlsson
> Just added it for you. After the next mirror update it will be available > at http://www.debian.org/devel/machines . It has also been linked from the > developer's page. Speaking of which, shouldn't this too have a separated text and data portion, or would it be considered to small to translate?

Re: list of machines for developers

1999-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
James A. Treacy wrote: > Just added it for you. After the next mirror update it will be available > at http://www.debian.org/devel/machines . It has also been linked from the > developer's page. Heh, I had the same thing ready, just one "cvs commit" away. :-) > Will you be maintaining the page?

Re: list of machines for developers

1999-05-04 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:42:10AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Since it's a common faq and it's useful to make this list available, we've > compiled a list of machines developers can get accounts on. I've set up a > demo page that lists them all, here: > http://kitenet.net/~joey/debian.org/dev

list of machines for developers

1999-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Since it's a common faq and it's useful to make this list available, we've compiled a list of machines developers can get accounts on. I've set up a demo page that lists them all, here: http://kitenet.net/~joey/debian.org/devel/machines Any objections to adding this to CVS? I'm not sure i

Re: separating language independent data from the .wml files

1999-05-04 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 04:23:44PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > What if a translater discovers he needs to tweek his translation or a new > translator adds... will all the languages be updated or just the one for > the language that was tweaked? > This is handled exactly as it should be. A tra

Re: Virtual packages list

1999-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > If that is the case, and since it is physically in the > policy-package, I offer to maintain the list (assuming the people on > the policy list do not think do not object to this blatant grab of > power ;-) Ok.. there was some confusion of debian-www about wher

Re: Virtual packages list

1999-05-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [Please direct follow ups to the policy list] >>"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Hm, I wonder if debian-policy is the correct owner for this, since it Joey> appears to be unmaintained according to discussion on debian-www. If that is the case, and since