Re: Arabic Support

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 translation, but presume that it is so outdated, that it might not be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