German translation of the manual

[Till Rettig]

Hi John,
I think at the weekend I will deliver my first part of the translation. 
Still there are some questions. Following the mailing lists I read that 
you want to make a translation branch. Does this change my working? Will 
I have to commit to master or to the other branch?

Another question concerns the translation itself: You didn't mention 
@cindex commands. I saw that the french translation left them in 
english, while the spanish translation team translated them also. What 
should I do here? Wouldn't it be clever to also automate their 
translation by a script, if I understand right, that they will form the 
index?

Well, so far.

Greetings Till