Fwd: RE: [Web-trans] Missing link

[Ofer Waldman]

oops, 
I sent it to a wrong address, here's the mail that RMS answered. 
 
salut! 
    the duke (Ofer Waldman) 
    TarGNUm mini-project - http://targnum.gnu.org.il 
 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: "Ofer Waldman" <address@hidden> 
To: address@hidden, address@hidden 
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 05:25:42 +0200 
Subject: RE: [Web-trans] Missing link 
 
  
A cronjob that will run on all of the www tree and see if there are 
translated documents not  
listed in the page?  
  
I think it would be wiser to create something that inspects every new 
file added through the CVS  
(I don't know the technical details of how to do that),  and if it has an 
.xx.html (xx stands for  
language code) suffix, then letting the relevant people know.  
This can also be done by a cronjob that finds all documents created after 
a certain date, and  
reporting them in case they have the .xx.html suffix.  
  
Going a bit further, I would suggest creating a list of translations for 
each page which will be  
included in a separate file (instead of being part of the document as it 
is today) and will be  
used by the page and all it's translations (I prefer the list to be in 
UTF-8/native names form,  
but this still has to be discussed). This way we won't have to update 
every translation when the  
translations list gets updated - it will automatically have an updated 
list . (Later on the  
new-translations-detector-cronjob will be able to use that list by 
inserting the new translations  
directly into it, if they are not already there, instead of letting the 
relevant people know. Full  
automation of translations uploading.)  
But hey, this is just an idea :)  
  
For the first step, a cronjob for detecting new translations will be 
great (thanks dwayne)  
  
salut!  
    the duke (Ofer Waldman)  
  
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-----Original Message-----  
From: "Dever, Dwayne" <address@hidden>  
To: "Praveen Kamat" <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>  
Cc: "Ofer Waldman" <address@hidden>  
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:50:21 -0500  
Subject: RE: [Web-trans] Missing link  
  
> I am capable of performing the task.   
>   
> Thanks,  
>    
> Dwayne  
> -----Original Message-----  
> From: Praveen Kamat [mailto:address@hidden   
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:10 PM  
> To: address@hidden  
> Cc: Ofer Waldman; Dever, Dwayne  
> Subject: Re: [Web-trans] Missing link  
>   
>   
> --- Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:  
>   
> > free-software-for-freedom.html has no link to  
> > free-software-for-freedom.es.html.  Could you create  
> > one?  
> >   
> > You could even make a cron job run it once a week  
> > and email you the results.  Then you would always   
> > find and fix any missing translation links.  
> >   
> > Please respond and tell me whether you can do this.  
>   
> For now I am going to defer this one to Ofer and  
> Dwayne for a response as I am not the programming  
> expert.  
>   
> Praveen  
>   
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