Re: what should we do with intro/international

1999-08-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:38:52PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Perhaps an overview page, and then a page for each language? That way, one > can have more informative entries, not having to worry about that the page > gets large. This would be my preferred choice. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho

Re: what should we do with intro/international

1999-08-06 Thread peter karlsson
> What do people think? I believe is that the page should contain the translated intro, and then entries for each of the languages, with entries in that native language. I mean, information for those who speak German, for example, is only interesting for those who speak German. This, of course, p

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread peter karlsson
> As I'd prefer not to change the Makefiles unnecessarily I'd rather > use the wml variables. Well, the Makefiles should be changed so the html pages also depends on the English versions (so that they are remade when the English version is updated, if that is not done, it defats the whole thing).

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 06:51:38PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > Umm.. I tried some environment variables of eperl, but they > all pointed to a file in /tmp (after the pass) so I finally decided > we could chagen the Makefile in order to give this additional information > from it.

what should we do with intro/international

1999-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
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

Re: Still Valid?

1999-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:34:36AM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 12:14:57PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > > I changed the links in devel/index and intro/about to point to > > the release section. Those were the only references I found. > > We should wait a few days

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Umm.. I tried some environment variables of eperl, but they all pointed to a file in /tmp (after the pass) so I finally decided we could chagen the Makefile in order to give this additional information from it. Feel free to change the script at will Regards Javi

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
If you take a look at the code I have just sent you will see we are not looking for comparing CVS version numbers between both files. That is, your point is correct, however all translators can use "another" version number (the one in the ) which refers with which file version (in the engl

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:27:59PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > Well, I am working on it... but I have a problem... > > ¿how can I find out in the embedded perl which is the name of the > file wml is parsing currently? You can use any of the variables defined in wml

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
It seems I have a working way to do this, alas, it changes, slightly how translators should add the information on which version they have translated (we could easily move from one format to another, whoever) There need to be some changes in the Make.dep.generic in order to give

Re: Please fix templates/language_names.wml

1999-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 02:01:48PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > > I have fixed template/language_names to add the translation of new > languages to spanish, however, I do not have write access to the repository. > I'm sending the diff :) please fix. > Just committed to CV

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread Darren O. Benham
I'm not sure this is going to work, directly I might make a change to an english version of a page, say, index.wml and upload.. find some spelling errors and upload again (bumping the version number twice) and when the translator comes around, he translates and uploads one... or maybe three ti

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Well, I am working on it... but I have a problem... ¿how can I find out in the embedded perl which is the name of the file wml is parsing currently? I need this in order to open the CVS/Entries file in the english directory and then take out the version num

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Not yet, I have had a week full of work. But I hope this weekend I will have time to take a look at it. Regards Javi On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 01:33:28PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > ¿What do you think of this? I am working with wml now, and could try > > to do thi

Please fix templates/language_names.wml

1999-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I have fixed template/language_names to add the translation of new languages to spanish, however, I do not have write access to the repository. I'm sending the diff :) please fix. Regards Javi --- Index: language_names.

Re: Notifying readers when documents are too old

1999-08-06 Thread peter karlsson
> ¿What do you think of this? I am working with wml now, and could try > to do this but I want to know if there are others more knowledgeable that > myself who could do this sooner. Did you come up with anything? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make

[Georg.Baum@gmx.de: german version of http://www.spi-inc.org/news/1998/19981029]

1999-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
The following was sent to webmaster. I'd appreciate it if a German speaker make the change, if he's correct. Jay Treacy - Forwarded message from Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:15:09 +0200 From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: german version of http://w

Re: WebSite Down?

1999-08-06 Thread Darren O. Benham
The site that hosts our web service is having problems so our website is unreachable at times... On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:45:59AM +, Xyzzy wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am a devout Debian user, as such I am constantly checking your > Website for news, security updates, as well as installing