Re: Arabic Support

Hi Salah, nice to hear from you. Of course, your help & input will be
highly appreciated. do we need to start a fresh copy of this or we can
continue from the already submitted patches? any notes will be
appreciated.

~Hassan

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 4:18 PM Salah Faya <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Thank you.
>
> Salah Faea
>
>
> On Wed., Dec. 8, 2021, 8:59 a.m. Hassan Ahmed, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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 translation, but presume that it is so outdated, that it might not be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