Re: Translating release notes

[Frank Arnold <frank scirocco-5v-turbo de>]

Am Samstag, den 05.03.2005, 13:15 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming:
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:45 +0100, Frank Arnold wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 04.03.2005, 18:32 +0100 schrieb Danilo Šegan:
> > > Today at 12:46, Martin Willemoes Hansen wrote:
> > > > 2. The translator-credits does not seem to be used?
> > > 
> > > If there's <articleinfo> in original DocBook, it will be added there
> > > as <copyright> tag.  If not, it is really not used. 
> > 
> > I've just tested the generation of German translation and well, it is
> > used... as footnote of generated HTML files.
> > 
> > When you have a look at http://www.gnome.org/ there is a footnote like
> > ---
> > Copyright © 2003, The GNOME Project 
> > GNOME and the foot logo are trademarks of the GNOME Foundation. 
> > Optimized for standards. Hosted by Red Hat
> > ---
> > 
> > At this place you get mentioned with
> > ---
> > Copyright © 2005. YOUR NAME (YOURMAIL HOST DOMAIN)
> > ---
> > (without above informations or notice of Murray/Davyd)
> 
> We may not remove the GNOME copyright. If you can add a credit for the
> translator then that's great.

OK, then I would suggest to turn off parsing of copyright notice in the
style sheet (see diff). Perhaps we could add a generic copyright message
like the first one.

And anyone who feels to can place the names of translators for the
particular language in the credits section ("This release notes were
assembled...") by adding a little sentence.

Index: db2html.xsl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/releng/2.x/style/db2html.xsl,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 db2html.xsl
--- db2html.xsl	13 Sep 2004 19:54:52 -0000	1.2
+++ db2html.xsl	5 Mar 2005 15:01:53 -0000
@@ -169,10 +169,12 @@
 			<xsl:with-param name="id" select="$id"/>
 			<xsl:with-param name="content" select="$content"/>
 		</xsl:apply-templates>
+<!--
 		<xsl:apply-templates
 			select="$node/ancestor::book/bookinfo//copyright       |
               $node/ancestor::article/articleinfo//copyright "
 			mode="copyright-footer-mode"/>
+-->
 	</xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>