Procedure for working with guides not originally written in English

Wed Sep 1 15:55:02 UTC 2010

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This morning I worked with gomix and dbecker on IRC (#fedora-docs) with
a non-English guide that we want to make official.  Because the base
language of all our guides has been English, and our translation tools
are based on English, this was a process that had been thought about but
not spelled out... until today.

The following process has been established and is open for suggestions:

Non-English source
        |
Non-English source
in DocBook XML
        |
Non-English POT
        |
English PO
        |
English POT
        |
Translated POs
        |
Publish English and translated
versions of the guide

The process needs to be fleshed out a bit and tools identified at
various points but this should be a good starting point.

As long as the source owner can find someone to translate the source
into English then our tool-chains should work.

Thoughts, comments, or questions?

- --Eric
Docs Lead
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