Re: Breaking changes to doc-base – notify translators?

On Wed, Aug 7, 2024, at 2:14 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> from time to time, changes to doc-en require changes to doc-base, and
> that may affect all translations, like
> <https://github.com/php/doc-base/pull/138>.
>
> I'm always hesitant to apply such changes without notifying the
> translators.  I am, however, to lazy to file issues (let alone PRs) to
> all active translations (currently about 10).  I also don't want to ping
> a couple of active translators; they just may not have time to respond,
> and keeping such a list up-to-date is probably not that easy.

Having tried to make the removal of the XForms-related documentation as gentle as possible for translations, I think in hindsight it's not really worth worrying about too much as long as the change is fairly mechanical in nature and not something that will require any significant translation work.

The build of the language from before the doc-base change lands will just remain the most recent version until the translation is caught up to changes in doc-base, and if someone is taking the time to merge in new translation work, they should be able to resolve the build issue as well.

I submitted PRs for all of the translations because it was a simple change, which I think is a nice thing to do, but I don't know that it should be required.

Jim