Re: Emacs manuals translation readme

[Stefan Kangas]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
writes:

>> On Feb 17, 2024, at 17:55, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> When I wrote doc/LANG/, I meant doc/fr/, doc/de/, etc.  I didn't mean
>> a literal "LANG" string.  So the above renaming now has an extra
>> subdirectory, which was not something I had in mind.  Stefan Kangas
>> agreed with my proposal back then.  So do you object to have manuals
>> translated to French in doc/fr/, rather than in doc/translations/fr/ ?
>
> I think that’s weird.
>
> We’ll end up having something like
>
> de
> emacs
> fr
> ja
> lispintro
> lispref
> man
> misc
> zh
>
> which is very confusing. I’ve never seen that. I’d understand if the
> existing English manuals were moved under doc/en, but since that’s not
> the case, I’m not sure I understand the rationale. Still, if you and
> Stefan are ok with that, I won’t object.

I agree that it seems rather unusual.  I thought we were discussing

    doc/translations/fr

rather than

    doc/fr/

otherwise what is the point of the "translations" directory?