[scribus-dev] Scribus documentation translations temporarily removed from builds

[Louis Desjardins]

2010/11/30 Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info>

>  On 11/30/10 11:26 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>
> 2010/11/30 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>
>> On 11/30/2010 02:24 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am not too sure to understand either just how the doc workflow works.
>>>
>>> Can we translate the doc? can we help write it? can this job be on a
>>> wiki? (so we can work on it step by step, from time to time, alone or in
>>> a group of people). How can we improve the doc workflow, in fact.
>>>
>>
>>  Anyone can translate the docs. Simply pull them out of their location and
>> edit away. Usually what I see people do on the wiki, which makes sense, is
>> to copy the original, then stepwise work through the html file paragraph by
>> paragraph, leaving the tags other structure in place as you go.
>>
>> The structure of the docs directories and files is pretty straightforward,
>> as is the XML file that forms the index. I have sent Christoph anything I
>> make, since he has commit rights and I don't.
>
>
>  Do we need commit rights to edit an online doc file? Or to submit a
> translation? My understanding of this is it’s tied to the application only
> by a URL. Thus, in no way does that affect the code. It’s a simple link to a
> website.
>
>
> You download the file from SVN, translate it, submit it to Christoph so he
> can commit it.
>

What do I do if I want to help write the file on the first place?

>
>
>  Can we turn this into a wikipedia-like way to go? If for some reason
> someone makes an error and mixes things or deletes some content, we have
> ways to return to the previous stage. I see a lot of disadvantages at
> pulling out a file, edit away and then pushing it back, while there are ways
> to work in a collaborative (and sync) mode.
>
>
> We have SVN.. which contains the history of Scribus for (almost) ever...
>
> I do not believe we have a nice way of extracting from a wiki to our html
> format.
>

There is something I don’t get, obviously. :)

Why should we extract something? When we edit a wikipedia page, we edit the
actual page that is shown to the rest of the world.

The only purpose I would see that would require to extract something is when
we would like to produce a book out of the content of the online doc, using
a Scribus template for instance. Then, yes, we would need to extract
something.

Louis

>
> Craig
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