#22359 [Opn]: Request: Additional release translations, and announcements.php

ID: 22359 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: philip at cornado dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: all PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: IMO there's no point in translating the website. (except for the manual) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-21 13:14:46] goba@php.net Well, I also thought about this. I really dislike the current translation method. Only English and French versions are posted of release announcements, BTW. If we go on this way, it is much better to think about translating the site. :))) So I thought about putting this a bit off, and do the user preferences and advanced search, which are the two next points on my todo list, and work on site translation support later. There are some problems, like what to do if a translation is outdated (fall back to English, but it may not be that easy). Eg if a release is out, and the English files are chnaged, but the translated ones are not. And then there is also the question on how to support site translation selection. Do the site "needs to be" translated to all languages, which have their manuals. If not, then we need a separate list for site translations, and so two different language handling methods for site and manual language preferences... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-21 13:09:12] philip at cornado dot com PHP offers official announcements in English and many times French. This is nice but how about having more translations? This is a phpweb feature request for both a Coordinated Announcement Translation System (CATS :) as well as a more featured release announcement webpage. Some points: - List out volunteer translators for the job (several per language) for later contact - English announcement is given to each team and within a sane amount of time translations are accepted and published - Most likely one volunteer per group will do the translation, sort of a first-accept-first-serve basis? Something... - New page (announcements.php) to display release announcements - *Maybe* also send translated announcements to "officially designated" lang mailing lists (ex. es = lista@phpes.com) and this could also mean auto emails to php.announce and php.general.. Currently translators copy the english phpweb file and create their own, for example: release_4_3_0.php release_4_3_0_fr.php With many translations (or even two) this clutters up the phpweb docroot so how about something more like: // Put translated announcements in a directory include/announce/4_3_0_fr.inc // Display it through one page announcements.php So announcements.php will provide announcements according to REQUEST: - default == latest and en - check for GET version (?version=430) - check for GET lang (?lang=fr) - check my.php.net lang preference - select box for available announcements Discuss :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22359&edit=1