Re: VCS Account Request: reinders

Hi Kevin, also forwarding to the list. On 23.12.2020 at 01:22, Kevin Reinders wrote: > Hi Christoph, > first of all, thank you for your quick response! > I'm fully aware of the shape you called the German translation is in, > but I do have quite some time, and surely motivation, to spare for e.g. keeping > the documentation up to date. > It may take hours and hours to update the existing or translating new, but it > won't be less if no one does the start! :) > I saw the regularly comming e-mails in the doc-de mailing list saying that the > doc is broken, but > unfortunately I couldn't do anything about it. Since edit.php.net is back up > again, I've tried to do some files regularly > but I don't know if they came through as intended because I always logged in as > anonymous user. > Also, maybe if someone gets a start set others may come back, it's a sort of > teamwork, I believe? :D Okay, makes sense. I have granted you phpdoc/de karma. Best of luck! :) Regards, Christoph > Best regards and wonderful pre-Christmas, > Kevin Reinders > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2020 um 01:03 Uhr > *Von:* "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de> > *An:* "Kevin Reinders" <k.reinders@gmx.net>, phpdoc@lists.php.net > *Betreff:* Re: VCS Account Request: reinders > On 22.12.2020 at 19:51, Kevin Reinders wrote: > > > Regular translation of the PHP documentation to German > > Hi Kevin, > > thanks for your request! > > However, the German translation is in a very bad shape. That doc build > is broken for more than two weeks, and although Martin did a few updates > recently, the build is not yet fixed. But even it is fixed, almost half > of the translated pages are still outdated[1], and that may be worse > than having no translation at all, because readers are likely unaware of > the translation being outdated. > > I estimate several hours to get the DE translation properly updated; > probably more like a few dozen hours. And given that a lot of PHP 8 > related changes are still pending, yet more time to invest in the near > future. I have serious doubts that the DE translation team is up to that.. > > So maybe you want to reconsider your account request? :) > > [1] > <http://doc.php.net/revcheck.php?p=filesummary&lang=de > > <http://doc.php.net/revcheck.php?p=filesummary&lang=de>> > [2] <https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/26 > <https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/26>> > > Regards, > Christoph >