translating quickguide - thoughts post hoary

[matthew.east at breathe.com]

Dear all, 

What are the chances of getting the quickguide translated through Rosetta? 
it's not in the at the moment. If it is possible to get it in there, we also 
need to think about how to package it: the german translations we pulled out 
of rosetta for release-notes and about-ubuntu had to be fairly heavily 
edited before we could get them to validate as xml and include them in the 
doc packages. Also we had the problem that both the documents appeared twice 
on rosetta. 

Is it feasible/desirable to translate the quickguide (and other future 
guides) through rosetta? Obviously, long documents such as these are 
difficult to coordinate translation without a decent and reliable system. 
Hats off to the French team for already translating it, but for other 
languages we're gonna have to think about this carefully IMO. 

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this. The quickguide and other 
future docteam guides will be an incredibly important part of the local 
(non-web) Ubuntu support system. 

regards,
Matt