----- Original Message -----
From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:06 PM
> > Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> > > Hi, some PostgreSQL users in Japan have been translating 7.1 docs into
> > > Japanese. I hope the work would finish within 1-2 months. My question
> > > is how the translated docs could be merged into the doc source tree
> > > once it is done. Maybe doc/ja/src/sgml?
> >
> > Hmm, *should* they be merged into the source tree, or distributed as
> > a separate tarball? I'm concerned that they'd always be out of sync
> > with the English docs :-(
>
> Right. However, it would be greater for Japanese users to have the
> Japanese docs in the *official* distribution of PostgreSQL, than
> getting them from other places. What about setting up a new CVS module
> for the Japanese docs, isolated from the source and English doc
> module(pgsql)?
What about the possibility of having docs translated into another
languages? Would you then include all those translations into the
*official* PostgresSQL distribution? There're many languages out there,
and maybe eventually the PG docs will get translated to these (some of these)
languages. Wouldn't it be too much of the documentation per
distribution? I guess that the setting up a separate CVS module
per language might be a good idea. People just grab the distribution and docs in
desired language, and plug the docs in, and here you go. And the docs are almost always
"out-of-sync" with the distribution anyway :), even the English ones...
Serguei
