Hello Thomas,
thanks for the reply and the details.
I know and understand the technical details behind that topic. But that
is not the point.
My apologize but it seems I wasn't clear enough.
The problem is that users (readers of the website) do get the message
that a page's translation is outdated and they should use another one.
That website is Debian. Users don't care if it is an official website, a
wiki, a community project or something else. It is just "Debian". And in
there perception the website is kind of "broken".
It is a matter of public relations and marketing.
It IMHO harms the project "Debian" having such pages online, no matter
how tiny the git diff is. The problem is the out of date translation
message.
One solution could be to just don't show pages out of date. In this case
you never have to show that out-dated message to users. It is that
simple.
Again: This ticket is not about technical details or problems. It is
about how the project is perceived by outsiders, potential new users and
potential new contributors.
Regards,
Christian
Am 23.03.2025 17:54 schrieb Thomas Lange:
We track all translations of our web pages on
https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats
For german you see a list of up-to-date and outdated pages
on https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/de
And you can directly see which git command will show the differences,
that are not yet applied to the translation.
The differences vary greatly, sometimes it's only a typo or a link
update from http to https, but sometimes larger parts of text are
changed, added or removed. Therefore it's not easy to decide if a
translation that is a couple of git commits behind the english version
should be removed or not.
IMO there's no need that you look for outdated pages manually.
But it seems there's a minor bug the the script that generates theses
statistics (stattrans.pl), because the l10n/ddtp page is not listed.
