Spanish documentation translations

[Cary Hartline]

> On 2015-apr-14, at 4:05 ptm, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
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> 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of the handbook covers FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6 (when all three versions EOLed  a long time ago), and the FAQ is even more outdated, dealing with FreeBSD 2.0.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.
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Hello all, I’m absolutely new to the FreeBSD mailing lists and to translating for FreeBSD.  I looked around to see where the translation system is, but I could not find it.  I am used to the way things are done on Launchpad.net and so I thought this would be similar.  If the way translation is done is very uniform then I would be fine with it, but this seems very tedious.  I would like to know the workflow for this PO translation system and the differences and similarities to the Launchpad.net <http://launchpad.net/> system.

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Cary Hartline, English - Esperanto translator