Chinese manual

[Hu Thomas Pan]

Karl,

Thanks! After finishing the manual, I can work on UI translation too. But,
before I commit too much, let me finish things step by step.


Best,
Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:06 AM
To: Subhendu Ghosh
Cc: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; Hu Thomas Pan
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Chinese manual

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 19:50 -0500, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, jeff vier wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:55, Hu Thomas Pan wrote:
> > > Is there anyone working on that? I can help translate Nagios manuals
into
> > > Chinese.
> > 
> > I don't mean to speak for the developers, but as a user of many open
> > source projects/applications, I am confident when I say "I doubt it".
> > 
> > The one (*smile*) downfall of open source is that, in general, the first
> > thing on a project to suffer is documentation.  (notably, though,
> > nagios' is some of the best documentation around.)
> > 
> 
> I can second Jeff's comments and only point to the Nagios-i18n project on 
> SourceForge as a possible forum.  Work there is under way on a Frech 
> translation.

When speaking to the nagios-i18n people, it may help them to know that
on sourceforge, it is possible to create CVS modules with write access
for different individuals, so it should be easy to create a module a
chinese translation that you could write to, without the possibility of
your accidentally stomping on the French translation work.

Also note that the plugins have been marked up for translation. We have
previously posted that we would like translators to step up to the plate
here, and the request still stands.

--
Karl





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