On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:02:15 +0800, "Alecs K." <Al...@pe...>
said:
> I just did some web search for making our pdf version of the User
> Manual, only to find this:
>
> http://www.uplinux.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=10090&sid=W2hJq537
>
> You wont believe this but somebody just had already done the translation
> of the User Manual before (or while?) we were doing all this stuff. It's
> just.. totally..amazingly incredible...
Amazing indeed. And admirable. We accumulated 10 odd people and spent
over
12 month for just about the same thing and maybe in some area, worse.
However, given the number of people in China, this is not totally
suprising.
I wouldn't be suprised if there are more of this kinda effor somewhere.
But
going this far takes a lot of effort and is truely respectable.
We would have been much better if we knew this earlier (much ealier).
There
is one thing that I think we did right: openess. Let people know we are
doing it and let people join us (hopefully).
I'd say it is too late now for the two thing to be incorporated.
This isn't the same as we did in the beginning of the project when we
merged with ken_lee (thanks again to wandys). Actually, I more or less
think this is normal and they scratch different itch. Our stuff can be
used as online help and we have more coverage (much more actually). I
think we did a greate job to do that. Of course we can make pdf version
of the user manual as well but it would still be feeding a different
need.
One greate thing about Linux and open source is choice. Then let there be
choice for Vim document translation as well.
Anyway, I'd say we continue whatever we are doing and do it well. Let
there
be debate if needed.
ps. If most of us agree with me, there is no need to host this file (no
offense, it is a very good file) on our site.
lang2
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