Re: [gentoo-doc] Date problem

[José Fournier]

On 02/27/13 14:42, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 27.02.2013 07:26, José Fournier wrote:
>> My question is why this discrepancy ? The files are the same, the
>> version and date tags are identical  [..]
>
> Yes, the version and date tags of the file you mentioned
> (hb-install-x86+amd64-medium.xml) are identical. But if you append
> "&passthru" to the URL, e.g. :
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=2&passthru
>
>
> you can see that there are other files involved as well. The XML code
> you get there is from doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml which has
> <date>2013-02-11</date>. That's the date the warning talks about.
>
> You get the warning because doc/fr/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml wasn't
> updated yet: It has <date>2010-07-19</date>. However, the date displayed
> on the french webpage is indeed the date from
> doc/fr/handbook/hb-install-x86+amd64-medium.xml. I suppose the date that
> appears on the rendered page is the newest one of the dates of all the
> files that are involved, thus ensuring that *every* part is updated.
>
> Regards,
> Tobias
>
>
Hi Tobias,

Thank you very much for answering.
If I understand well what you are saying the warning doesn't work on a 
per page basis, but rather on a per book basis.
Despite this I still have trouble understanding the strangeness of the 
dates that appear even on my local copy where a larger amount of file is 
updated (including doc/fr/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml). I think that 
with time I will grasp the mechanism better thanks to your remark.

Whatever it is, this seems to mean that, from the user point of view, it 
is impossible to trust a translated page, even important, as long as,  a 
trivial detail on one page of all the book is not translated. Rather 
difficult, if my understanding is good,  for  a translator to convey 
confidence to his readers !

Regards

José