Re: VCS Account Request: reinders

Hi Kevin,

also forwarding to the list.

On 23.12.2020 at 01:22, Kevin Reinders wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> first of all, thank you for your quick response!
> I'm fully aware of the shape you called the German translation is in,
> but I do have quite some time, and surely motivation, to spare for e.g. keeping
> the documentation up to date.
> It may take hours and hours to update the existing or translating new, but it
> won't be less if no one does the start! :)
> I saw the regularly comming e-mails in the doc-de mailing list saying that the
> doc is broken, but
> unfortunately I couldn't do anything about it. Since edit.php.net is back up
> again, I've tried to do some files regularly
> but I don't know if they came through as intended because I always logged in as
> anonymous user.
> Also, maybe if someone gets a start set others may come back, it's a sort of
> teamwork, I believe? :D

Okay, makes sense.  I have granted you phpdoc/de karma.  Best of luck! :)

Regards,
Christoph

> Best regards and wonderful pre-Christmas,
> Kevin Reinders
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2020 um 01:03 Uhr
> *Von:* "Christoph M. Becker" <[email protected]>
> *An:* "Kevin Reinders" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> *Betreff:* Re: VCS Account Request: reinders
> On 22.12.2020 at 19:51, Kevin Reinders wrote:
>
>  > Regular translation of the PHP documentation to German
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> thanks for your request!
>
> However, the German translation is in a very bad shape. That doc build
> is broken for more than two weeks, and although Martin did a few updates
> recently, the build is not yet fixed. But even it is fixed, almost half
> of the translated pages are still outdated[1], and that may be worse
> than having no translation at all, because readers are likely unaware of
> the translation being outdated.
>
> I estimate several hours to get the DE translation properly updated;
> probably more like a few dozen hours. And given that a lot of PHP 8
> related changes are still pending, yet more time to invest in the near
> future. I have serious doubts that the DE translation team is up to that.
>
> So maybe you want to reconsider your account request? :)
>
> [1] <http://doc.php.net/revcheck.php?p=filesummary&lang=de
> <http://doc.php.net/revcheck.php?p=filesummary&lang=de>>
> [2] <https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/26
> <https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/26>>
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
>