Re: Arabic Support

Hi Hassan, It's been a long time since we had any activity related to the Arabic translation other than occasional and individual contributions. I'm glad you are willing to start such a huge project. Let me know if I could be of any help, and as Christoph mentioned it is better to do so with a team and probably need to start fresh and finish a large portion before it can be marked active. Thank you. Salah Faea On Wed., Dec. 8, 2021, 8:59 a.m. Hassan Ahmed, <7snovic@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Christoph, Thanks for your reply. You are totally right, it will > be a huge task, and I was planning to gather some colleagues to start > with it. I just wanted to kick it off because I already checked the > mailing list and it was not active since 2015. > > It is a great Idea to fork it on my Github. Actually, I was planning > to do this as a separate project/website but It will be more valuable > if it is related to the main organization. > > Thanks a lot. > > ~Hassan > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 1:07 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> > wrote: > > > > On 08.12.2021 at 10:43, Hassan Ahmed wrote: > > > > > I'm planning to dedicate more time to translate the PHP man pages into > > > Arabic. I'd sent to doc-ar since 3 days ago with no response at all. > > > any thought about how to push it? > > > > Hi Hassan, > > > > apparently, the Arabic translation[1] as well as the mailing list[2] are > > abandoned for four years, and I presume that none of the former > > maintainers is still active in any way. I don't know about the existing > > translation, but presume that it is so outdated, that it might not be > > salvageable, so a clean start may make more sense. > > > > If you're sure that you want to take on this huge task (and it is a huge > > task), I suggest that you start the translation effort in your own > > Github repo, and that you try to gather a translation team by whatever > > means. If that succeeds, and you made some progress, that repo could be > > forked by the php organization, and if considered sufficiently complete, > > the translation could then be marked as active again (to be available on > > php.net/manual). > > > > [1] <http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/ar/> > > [2] <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc.ar> > > > > Best of luck, > > Christoph >