[openbeos] Re: BeBook license

"J. Starek" <jslistmail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I personally think, we just shouldn't care about any translations. 
> > Development language is English - if anybody wants to contribute 
> > directly to the project, at least.
> Well, IIRC from last BeGeistert, you are an university student 
> (computer 
> sciences?). Students generally tend to have little problems with 
> English 
> because they have grown up learning the language at school and deal 
> with 
> it a lot in lectures and books.

Yes, but that was mainly meant as a requirement to participate in this 
project - at least a basic understanding of English, because we need to 
work together :-)

> > Of course, if there is a team which takes up the task and keep the 
> > translations up to date, I would appreciate it.
> There will be - but there will have to be some synchronization 
> between 
> the developers and the doc team (see below).

I know that many developers aren't very good with writing 
documentation, so we need to work together tightly - but if the 
developer haven't written a particular piece that falls into his area, 
I think he *must* check the correctness of the docs directly.

> > But I think the responsibility of keeping the original English 
> > documentation up-to-date should lie in the hands of the developers 
> > of the
> > corresponding component - else I don't expect it to work too well.
> I don't know if I'm right there, but I think Jeff Biss (the doc team 
> lead) posted a request to this mailing list a while ago asking 
> developers 
> to point out any changes in the API to him. Personally, I cross-check 
> with the current CVS entries sometimes (but not every day).

I think there aren't any fixed changes up to now, but they will 
certainly happen, and of course, they should be documented :-)
But I think the English documentation should come first here when 
possible; of course, if the developer in question writes e.g. the 
French documentation, because he doesn't like or can write longer texts 
in English, we would need to translate it ASAP.

Adios...
   Axel.

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