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GLEP: 10
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Title: Localized Gentoo Sites
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Version: $Revision: 1.3 $
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2004/05/02 21:15:23 $
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Author: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>, Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>
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Status: deferred
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Created: 4-Aug-2003
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Post-History: 4-Aug-2003, 22-Aug-2003, 14-Mar-2004, 2-May-2004, 22-Aug-2004
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Status
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Due to insufficient resources, the doc team is unable to implement
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this GLEP at this time. It has therefore been marked "deferred".
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Abstract:
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The Gentoo Website [#gentoo]_ is the main source of documentation regarding
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Gentoo itself. It hosts all documents that the Gentoo Documentation Project
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[#gdp]_ delivers, including all made translations. In addition the website
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contains the GWN and its translations and several news items.
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Motivation:
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Lots of people have shown interest in the localization proposal, and
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even the infrastructure team has given positive feedback. However, due
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to lack of a good roadmap and proposal this suggestion has never grown
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beyond what it is now: a suggestion. Between the first draft of this
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proposal and now some communities grown faster than others. Actually it
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is obvious that we have big communities (lots of users, lots of
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translators) and smaller communities (less users, less translators). If
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we speak about localized Gentoo sites we need to find a capable
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solution for small and even bigger communities. This leads us to a
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point where the lead translator can decide between a small localized
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site including necessarily translated documents and only some
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additional pages and a bigger variant with lots of translated gdp
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documents, translated news and gwn plus additional pages.
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Rationale:
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The current layout regarding documentation in the CVS is as follows:
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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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However, there are several other documents (about, policy, etc) in
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main/$lang:
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/main/en/*
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/main/nl/*
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[gentoo]/xml/htdocs/main/fr/*
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This structure makes it very difficult for assigning permissions to the
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individual translation teams, and even more difficult to really localize
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the Gentoo Website. At this very moment, the translation teams can edit
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documents of other languages or even the master English documents. English
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reviewers and editors can touch documents of languages they possibly don't
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even know. Although we do trust every single documentation editor, a better
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implementation is advisable. We also can't give access to well-known
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but non-dev translators.
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We want to restructure the current layout so that the Gentoo Website is
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more easily internationalized.
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Implementation:
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===============
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Website Pages:
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The Lead Translator can choose if he wants to maintain a "small" or a
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"big" localized site. All localized sites will be accessible on
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http://$lang.gentoo.org which will point to [gentoo]xml/htdocs/$lang.
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All localized sites must be implemented in GuideXML.
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Requirements for "small" localized sites:
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.........................................
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- all documents marked as required in our Translators Howto
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- $lang/main/translators.xml, listing of all translators (including
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GWN translators)
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- $lang/main/communities.xml, listing of all community sites available in $lang
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- index.xml "welcome page", listing of available ressources on
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$lang.gentoo.org (i.e. links to documentation, translators.xml and
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communities.xml)
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Requirements for "big" localized sites:
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.......................................
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- all documents marked as required in our Translators Howto
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- $lang/main/translators.xml, listing of all translators (including
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GWN translators)
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- $lang/main/communities.xml, listing of all community sites available in $lang
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- translated $lang/main documents
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- translated $lang/news/gwn
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- translated news items ($lang/news) (only translated news items,
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news items on a per-lang basis aren't allowed)
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CVS Structure:
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Actual scheme, everything is relative to [gentoo]/xml/htdocs::
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main/en Contains the main Gentoo Website (about, policy, lists, etc.)
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main/$lang Contains some translated Website pages
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doc/en Contains the master English Documentation
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doc/$lang Contains the translated Documentation
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news Contains English news items
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news/en/gwn Contains the master English GWNs
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news/$lang/gwn Contains translated GWNs
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proj/en Contains the project Webpages
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Proposed scheme, relative to [gentoo]/xml/htdocs::
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$lang/main Contains some translated Website pages
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$lang/doc Contains the translated Documentation
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$lang/news Contains translated news items
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$lang/news/gwn Contains translated GWNs
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Mail:
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-----
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All mails to www-$lang@gentoo.org should be forwarded to the Lead
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Translator and his Follow-Up.
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XSL:
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We need to "hack" our guide.xsl to support something like inserts.xml for the
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whole site.
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.. [#gentoo] http://www.gentoo.org
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.. [#gdp] http://gdp.gentoo.org
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