Re: Arabic Support

Hi Salah, nice to hear from you. Of course, your help & input will be highly appreciated. do we need to start a fresh copy of this or we can continue from the already submitted patches? any notes will be appreciated. ~Hassan On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 4:18 PM Salah Faya <visualmind@php.net> wrote: > > 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 translation, but presume that it is so outdated, that it might not be 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