Spanish documentation translations

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Federico Caminiti wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a patch [1] that fixes some problems whith the spanish version of the 
> FAQ. For the most part, the patch just adds opening question marks on those 
> sentences that start with a question. I subscribed to the spanish mailing 
> list ( doc at es.freebsd.org )  about a year and a half ago and sent them an 
> email,  but I haven't got a reply since and the list seems to be inactive 
> since 2010.
>
> The spanish documentation in general seems to be in dire straits. For 
> starters,  the spanish version of the handbook covers FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6 
> (when all three versions EOLed  a long time ago), and the FAQ is even more 
> outdated, dealing with FreeBSD 2.0.
>
> I would love to fix those problems (and sync the spanish documentation with 
> the english version) but I don't know where or how to send the patches (I 
> uploaded my first patch to bugzilla about a week ago, but no one stepped up 
> to review it yet so I'm not sure it is the right place).
>
> I would appreciate it if anyone could give me some pointers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Federico Caminiti
>
> 1 - https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199277

As far as I know, nobody has worked on the Spanish translation in years. 
Our current translation system is not really a system.  Translators must 
watch for commits and look at diffs, and this really adds a lot of work 
to an already-difficult job.  One of our ongoing projects is to get rid 
of all that overhead and use the PO translation system.  This would make 
the job much easier for translators.  This is one of the things we will 
be talking about at the BSDCan developer summit in June.

In the meantime, I'm not sure what to suggest.  Finding a 
Spanish-speaking documentation committer to check and commit your 
patches would be a start.  Unfortunately, I don't know if any of the doc 
committers speak Spanish.