Publican Documentation Naming

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 14:46:21 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:56:35AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On 04/01/2009 09:31 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> >> > make build WITHOUT="en de fr cz" WITH="es"
> > 
> > Those changes would be to the packaging CVS Makefile.common, I take
> > it.  Interesting, I didn't know there was such a request outstanding.
> 
> To be fair, I don't know if there is a formal request outstanding, but I
> know it is something that has been discussed on and off for years.
> 
> >> > Also, if we're "stuck" on a tool where we are in fear to make changes to
> >> > improve it or fix bugs, how open source is that tool?
> >> > 
> >> > I seriously doubt the package committee would endorse an approach that
> >> > throws hundreds of documentation packages (different only in
> >> > translation) at the review system, nor do I think it is likely that they
> >> > would vote to approve guidelines that enables all of these individual
> >> > packages to be reviewed in one ticket. However, that is just my opinion,
> >> > and you're certainly welcome to draft a formal proposal.
> > 
> > Ian mentioned that subpackages can be passed through to bodhi without
> > implicating all the siblings, which relieves the burden quite a bit.
> 
> Are you sure about this? This would be news to me, but if it is true, it
> would mean that the biggest concern around translations in subpackages
> is minimized.

Q.v.: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-March/msg00234.html

Ian, can you confirm this is correct?

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