Spanish documentation translations

[Juan Ramón Molina Menor]

On 14/04/2015 23:05, Warren Block wrote:
> 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 is even more outdated, dealing with FreeBSD 2.0.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.

I had committed myself to update this Spanish FAQ, but time is scarce 
and the lack of a proper translation system is quite discouraging... or 
a good enough excuse! ;-)

I really hope your work in BSDCan will change the situation. In the 
meantime, I can confirm that the patch from Federico looks correct 
(thanks by the way!), but I’m not a committer. I’ve taken a look at 
/share/misc/commiters-doc.dot and indeed there aren’t any obvious 
Spanish-speaking names with an active commit bit.

Best regards,
Juan