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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">GLEP:</th><td class="field-body">10</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">Localization for Gentoo Community</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Version:</th><td class="field-body">1.1</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Last-Modified:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0010.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2003/08/04 18:03:54</a></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Sven Vermeulen <swift at gentoo.org></td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">Draft</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">4 Aug 2003</td>
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<p class="topic-title"><a name="contents">Contents</a></p>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id8" name="id8">Abstract</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id9" name="id9">Motivation</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#rationale" id="id10" name="id10">Rationale</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#implementation" id="id11" name="id11">Implementation</a><ul>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#cvs-structure" id="id12" name="id12">CVS Structure</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#website-pages" id="id13" name="id13">Website pages</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#cvs-permissions" id="id14" name="id14">CVS Permissions</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id15" name="id15">References</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#copyright" id="id16" name="id16">Copyright</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="abstract">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1>
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<p>The <a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org">Gentoo web site</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id2" id="id3" name="id3">[2]</a> is the main source of documentation regarding
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Gentoo itself. It hosts all documents that the <a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp">Gentoo Documentation
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Project</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id4" id="id5" name="id5">[3]</a> delivers, including all made translations.</p>
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<p>This GLEP proposes some changes regarding the documentation
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so that we can provide our international users with information regarding
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Gentoo Communities, as proposed by <a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23199">Bug #23199</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id6" id="id7" name="id7">[4]</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="motivation">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1>
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<p>Lots of people have shown interest in the localization proposal,
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and even the infrastructure team has given positive feedback. However,
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due to lack of a good roadmap and proposal this suggestion has never
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grown beyond what it is now: a suggestion.</p>
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<p>The current CVS structure (and permissions) are insufficient to implement a
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localized section for each possible country. The current permissions are to
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broad while they should be very strict, the current layout is too fragmented
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while it should be grouped together.</p>
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<div class="section" id="rationale">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1>
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<p>The current layout regarding documentation in the CVS is as follows:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/en/*
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/nl/*
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/doc/fr/*
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...
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<p>However, the documentation index page itself (and several other
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important parts of the Gentoo website) are structed like this:</p>
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/main/en/*
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/main/nl/*
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/main/fr/*
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...
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<p>This structure makes it very difficult for assigning permissions to the
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individual translation teams, and even more difficult to really localise
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the Gentoo Website. At this very moment, the translation teams can edit
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documents of other languages or even the master English documents. English
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reviewers and editors can touch documents of languages they possibly don't
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even know. Although we do trust every single documentation editor, a better
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implementation is advisable.</p>
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<p>We want to restructure the current layout so that the Gentoo Website is
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more easily internationalized.</p>
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<div class="section" id="implementation">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" name="implementation">Implementation</a></h1>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12" name="cvs-structure">CVS Structure</a></h2>
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<p>What is needed, is a clear distinction between documentation, newsletters,
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website and localization. This requires a directory structure in the CVS
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repository that reflects this distinction.</p>
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<p>In the following scheme, everything is relative to [gentoo]/xml/htdocs:</p>
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main/en Contains the main Gentoo Website
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main/${LANGUAGE} Contains some translated website pages
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main/lcl/${COUNTRYCODE} Contains the localized Gentoo page
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doc/en Contains the master English Documentation
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doc/${LANGUAGE} Contains the translated Documentation
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news/en Contains the English GWNs
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news/${LANGUAGE} Contains the translated GWNs
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proj/en Contains the project Webpages
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<p>In comparison with what is currently the case, there are no big changes.
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I've explicitly left out <cite>proj/${LANGUAGE}</cite> since there is no direct
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need to translate project websites. If it is desired, then creating a
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language-specific directory is sufficient.</p>
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<div class="section" id="website-pages">
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13" name="website-pages">Website pages</a></h2>
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<p>Currently, the main documentation page is <cite>main/en/docs.xml</cite>. A better
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implementation would be to have it as <cite>doc/en/index.xml</cite>. This keeps
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everything documentation-related together. It also provides us with
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seperate index pages for each language (<cite>doc/${LANGUAGE}/index.xml</cite>).</p>
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<p>The documentation indexes should mention the other indexes (for other
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languages), but shouldn't have seperate links for each language per
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document.</p>
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<p>The localization page resides in <cite>main/${COUNTRYCODE}/index.xml</cite>. This
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page, which is formatted the same way as the whole Gentoo website,
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<strong>only</strong> contains the following information:</p>
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- A list of community websites [1]_
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- A link to the translated documentation index
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- A link to translated Gentoo-webpages::
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* About
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* Social Contract
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* Gentoo Weekly News
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<p>If the localization team wants, this can be extended to also provide
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news-items (such as with the main Gentoo website). In this case, the
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news items also reside in <cite>main/lcl/${COUNTRYCODE}</cite>.</p>
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<p>Also, <cite>http://${COUNTRYCODE}.gentoo.org</cite> should point to
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<cite>main/lcl/${COUNTRYCODE}/index.xml</cite>.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14" name="cvs-permissions">CVS Permissions</a></h2>
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<p>The permissions are now clear and distinct:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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- Documentation Developers cannot touch the Gentoo website,
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except for the Index page, which now resides in `doc/en`.
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- Translators can only touch files in `doc/${LANGUAGE}` and
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`main/${LANGUAGE}`.
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- The localized pages, which are rather static (since they only
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contain a list of community sites), are maintained by a
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single group for all countrycodes, unless the localization
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pages also contain newsitems, in which case seperate groups
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for each country can exist.
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" name="references">References</a></h1>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id1">[1]</a></td><td>A sum of such community sites can be found at
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<a class="reference" href="http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/communities.html">http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/communities.html</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id3" name="id2">[2]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org">http://www.gentoo.org</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id5" name="id4">[3]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp">http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id7" name="id6">[4]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23199">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23199</a></td></tr>
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