Re: 3.4 Release Notes

[Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 23:53, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
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>> >>
>> >> I was thinking of switching from Docbook to Mallard for 3.6 (I didn't
>> >> have time to prepare this for 3.4 already).
>> >> The advantages of "GNOME 3 page style" are unclear to me currently,
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>> Advantages of moving over to using Wordpress for the release notes
>> (that I can think of):
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> My main objection would be translation.  One of the problems is that I would
> like to see our content/news/release notes translated so that we can have
> greater coverage.  I feel that english makes us somewhat limited.
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> At least, let's agree that if we do it on wordpress that we have it in
> English and Spanish.

IMHO translation is essential for introductions, presentations,
overviews, news, release notes and such. These are the documents that
can reach people who do not know/use GNOME. There should not be
language barriers for potential new adopters.

I like all the WP benefits listed, though it would be a severe
regression to leave translation behind.

So, what does supporting translation implies? Is it about
1. getting the right plugin
    https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+multilingual

2. interfacing with DL workflow (po files, git)

Or?


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> sri
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>>
>>  1. The notes will be on gnome.org rather than under
>> library.gnome.org/misc (why are the notes for our new release in a
>> 'library'? why are they 'miscellaneous'?)
>>
>>  2. Avoid the bookishness of the format (sub-headings everywhere,
>> boxes of links interrupting the flow of the document), which is rather
>> stilted.
>>
>>  3. Allow embedding of richer media, such as lightboxes, image
>> galleries and videos.
>>
>>  4. Allow flexible design, facilitating a more stylish and attractive
>> layout.
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>>  5. Allow division of the notes into separate pages, rather than being
>> a single *huge* page.
>>
>> >> however I would first have to know what markup language this move would
>> >> imply,
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>> Wordpress reduces the need for markup. The only markup you need is
>> html for formatting and embedding media, plus for bits of fancier page
>> layout.
>>
>> >> plus if anybody would be actually willing to prepare this move.
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>> Actually writing the notes and doing the markup would be less work
>> than with Docbook or Mallard, so in that respect we'd save time and
>> effort. However, we would need a bit of extra help on the web
>> development side if we wanted to make the notes look really nice.
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>> > I'm interested in this as well.  As Shaun noted about translations I
>> > would
>> > like to see this translated in as many languages as possible.
>> >
>> > We'll need to start on this soon.
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>> Most of the pieces are in place to make gnome.org translatable using
>> the standard GNOME infrastructure. We just need to hook it up to damn
>> lies [1]. I've spoken to Vinicius and he's confident that we can have
>> it ready in time to get the release notes translated.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671647
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