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Update the GLEP from ISO 639 to IETF language tags (BCP 47), in order |
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to make it consistent with usage in the L10N USE_EXPAND variable. |
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This will make no difference for most common languages. Also there are |
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currently no translations of news items at all. |
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|
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Add a note clarifying what "very short" means. |
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--- |
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glep-0042.rst | 11 +++++++---- |
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1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/glep-0042.rst b/glep-0042.rst |
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index 7726ea4..90ae0b2 100644 |
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--- a/glep-0042.rst |
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+++ b/glep-0042.rst |
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@@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ form ``yyyy-mm-dd-short-name``, where ``yyyy`` is the year (e.g. ``2005``), |
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``mm`` is the month (``01`` through ``12``) and dd is the day of the month |
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(``01`` through ``31``). The ``short-name`` is a very short name describing the |
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news item (e.g. ``yoursql-updates``), consisting only of the characters ``a-z``, |
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-``0-9``, ``+`` (plus), ``-`` (hyphen) and ``_`` (underscore). |
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+``0-9``, ``+`` (plus), ``-`` (hyphen) and ``_`` (underscore). While there |
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+is no hard restriction for the length of ``short-name``, it is strongly |
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+recommended to limit it to at most 20 characters. |
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|
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News Item Directories |
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--------------------- |
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@@ -191,8 +193,8 @@ The directory will contain a file named ``yyyy-mm-dd-short-name.en.txt``, which |
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contains the text of the news item, in English, in the format described below. |
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If a news item is translated, other files named ``yyyy-mm-dd-short-name.xx.txt`` |
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-(where ``xx`` is the ISO 639 [#iso-639]_ two letter language code, and the date |
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-remains the same as the original news item) will also be provided. However, only |
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+(where ``xx`` is a valid IETF language tag [#bcp-47]_, and the date remains |
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+the same as the original news item) will also be provided. However, only |
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the English version of a news item is authoritative. This anglocentricity is |
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justified by precedent [#glep-34]_. |
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@@ -475,6 +477,8 @@ Example Files |
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References |
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========== |
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+.. [#bcp-47] BCP 47: "Tags for identifying languages", |
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+ https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt |
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.. [#bug-11359] Bugzilla Bug 11359 |
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"[NEW FEATURE] pkg_postinst/pkg_preinst ewarn/einfo logging", |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359 |
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@@ -500,7 +504,6 @@ References |
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.. [#glep-74] GLEP 74: "Full-tree verification using Manifest files", |
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Michał Górny, Robin Hugh Johnson, Ulrich Müller, |
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https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html |
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-.. [#iso-639] ISO 639 "Code for the representation of names of languages" |
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.. [#ramereth-repo] "Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting", Lance |
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Albertson, |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/4204839d4091758c3bad1dbd18ed16f7 |
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