Re: Arabic Support

Hi Hassan,

It's been a long time since we had any activity related to the Arabic
translation other than occasional and individual contributions. I'm glad
you are willing to start such a huge project. Let me know if I could be of
any help, and as Christoph mentioned it is better to do so with a team and
probably need to start fresh and finish a large portion before it can be
marked active.

Thank you.

Salah Faea


On Wed., Dec. 8, 2021, 8:59 a.m. Hassan Ahmed, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Christoph, Thanks for your reply. You are totally right, it will
> be a huge task, and I was planning to gather some colleagues to start
> with it. I just wanted to kick it off because I already checked the
> mailing list and it was not active since 2015.
>
> It is a great Idea to fork it on my Github. Actually, I was planning
> to do this as a separate project/website but It will be more valuable
> if it is related to the main organization.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> ~Hassan
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 1:07 PM Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 08.12.2021 at 10:43, Hassan Ahmed wrote:
> >
> > > I'm planning to dedicate more time to translate the PHP man pages into
> > > Arabic. I'd sent to doc-ar since 3 days ago with no response at all.
> > > any thought about how to push it?
> >
> > Hi Hassan,
> >
> > apparently, the Arabic translation[1] as well as the mailing list[2] are
> > abandoned for four years, and I presume that none of the former
> > maintainers is still active in any way.  I don't know about the existing
> > translation, but presume that it is so outdated, that it might not be
> > salvageable, so a clean start may make more sense.
> >
> > If you're sure that you want to take on this huge task (and it is a huge
> > task), I suggest that you start the translation effort in your own
> > Github repo, and that you try to gather a translation team by whatever
> > means.  If that succeeds, and you made some progress, that repo could be
> > forked by the php organization, and if considered sufficiently complete,
> > the translation could then be marked as active again (to be available on
> > php.net/manual).
> >
> > [1] <http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/ar/>
> > [2] <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc.ar>
> >
> > Best of luck,
> > Christoph
>