Re: VCS Account Request: reinders

On 23.12.2020 at 01:53, Anna Filina wrote:

> Hi team,
>
> I'd like to help by soliciting German-speaking people to complete the
> translation. What is the best link to share in order to get them to
> participate? I'll broadcast the info in my channels and reach out to a few
> people personally.

Maybe just link to this email thread[1]?  And sure, more help would be
welcome.  Thanks!

[1] <https://marc.info/?l=phpdoc&m=160898877029644&w=2>

Regards,
Christoph

> Thanks,
> Anna Filina
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:03 PM Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 of the translated pages are still outdated[1], and that may be worse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 the translation being outdated.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>
>> [2] <https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/26>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christoph
>>
>