[Xfce-i18n] Xfce Documentation Project

[Dimitris Glezos]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:55:03 +0200
> Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> * We empty the xfce4-docs repo and create branches like
>> <project>-<branch>, for example xfce4-panel-master. Inside the branch
>> we add the doc files + images + Makefiles.
>> Right now the documentation translations are also located in this
>> folder, but we can move those to handle all the translations in the
>> (for example) xfce4-panel modules or in xfce4-docs (transifex commits
>> in xfce4-docs).
>> I think the latter is somewhat better since then translators always
>> see the latest docs changes, this also means one xfce4-docs module in
>> transifex with multiple components for each project, projects can use
>> those components in releases for a better overview... ok... OT.
>
> Branches are not there for alternative content but for variations of
> the same content. So, while I can see how separate components would be
> nice in Tx, I don't think we should violate branches for that. One
> folder for each repository that needs documentation is better. And only
> one branch for now: master.

A quick note to mention something that might or might not be relevant:
with the newer version of Transifex, you can have multiple resources
(ex-components) pull files from the same branch. So one can point one
resource to some files from one dir and another to others.

-d



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Dimitris Glezos

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