Re: proposal for managing man pages in CVS
>In article <[🔎] oag10ipeam.fsf@burrito.onshore.com>
> adam@onshore.com (Adam Di Carlo) writes:
>> NABETANI Hidenobu <nabetani@kern.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp> writes:
>> > I propose that Debian-specific man pages should be managed in CVS,
>> > which has the following good feature:
>> >
>> > * Of course, many good feature of CVS.
>> > * The package maintainers can easily get the translated man pages
>> > for their packages.
>> >
>> > I have already translated some Debian-specific man pages to Japanese.
>> > To maintain them up-to-date and easily commit them to the maintainer,
>> > they should be managed in CVS, I think.
>> We have no authority to dictate to maintainers how they should go
>> about managing their own sources. I can only say that we freely offer
>> use of cvs.debian.org for any debian project -- I think this helps
>> translators of the developers-reference, boot-floppies, and other
>> various DDP documentations.
>I suppose that nabetani's proposal is not to dictate to maintainers,
>but to provide the integrated working place for translators.
>
>Of course, if the source for package is managed by CVS, and if the translators
>can get the account to access there, it is welcome for the translators.
We already provide the DDP CVS area. What else can we do?
>But if it is not the choice by the maintainers, it may be better
>to gather the work of translators from all over the world into one
>integrated place that to split them scattered, becuase it may reduce
>the work for the maintainers when he decide to update their translated
>manpages. He can do it simply by getting current translated version
>from the CVS. If he put his new original manpages into that CVS, then
>the translators will work for his upcoming new version. The maintainers
>does not need to import the whole of his source code into CVS.
>
>Or Do I have misunderstand ? Please tell me if I have. Thanks.
No, you don't misunderstand, I'm just pointing out we already have
this infrastructure available. What's next is just to maybe setup a
new module -- I'd be happy to set one up for you in
cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-doc if you like -- and convince maintainers
to use it if they want to.
I object to any attempt to *require* this practice however.
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