Re: German Docu-Site

[David Kastrup]

Joram <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Federico and Francisco,
>
>> The german documentation is not maintained, …
>>
>> After several reports about errors in german documentation and nobody
>> willing to help to maintain it, I'd lean towards a grumpy reply and say
>> "read the english and forget the german documentation!".
>
> This situation is annoying me now long enough. And I think a up-to-date
> German documentation is important.

I agree.  I wanted to put work in it myself at one point of time, but my
lack of being able to sort priorities out hits rather badly here.  The
most important priority would be to get the documentation up-to-date.
But since I'm bothered by its current writing style (in German, the
degree of informality in "proper" documentation tends to be quite lower
than in American English), I end up rewriting everything, and I don't
actually have the time and energy for that.

> I would like to change it or at least try. Skimming the contributor
> guide, I think I am able to do so.
>
> Should I just read this
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/translating-the-documentation
> completely and then start? I would come back to the mailing list
> (lilypond-devel?) in case of questions. What do you think?

There is a special list for translators (also mentioned in the CG).  For
technical questions particular to the translation process, it might make
more sense communicating there.

-- 
David Kastrup