The Greek FreeBSD translation team has been working on and off on the Greek translation of the FreeBSD documentation set for a long time now. We started getting a lot of commit actions when Manolis joined the team, and he is now an undisputed “overlord” of the Greek Handbook. He gates patches from other contributors, and has submitted far more text than me at this point:

$ pwd
/hg/doc/el
$ hg churn
ncvs                                627371 ******************************************
sonicy                              114351 *************
keramida                             23019 ***

We have Greek versions of more than half of the English documentation tree, and there are 18 files marked for update with special comments in the source of each file:

$ find en_US.ISO8859-1 -type f | wc -l
     342
$ find el_GR.ISO8859-7 -type f | wc -l
     125
$ find el_GR.ISO8859-7 | checkupdate -c | nl
     1  1.39       -> 1.60       el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/Makefile
     2  1.49       -> 1.51       el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/new-users/article.sgml
     3  1.43       -> 1.61       el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/problem-reports/article.sgml
     4  1.6        -> 1.19       el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/releng-packages/article.sgml
     5  1.18       -> 1.19       el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/releng/Makefile
     6  1.48       -> 1.81       el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/releng/article.sgml
     7  1.1103     -> 1.1110     el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/faq/book.sgml
     8  1.414      -> 1.421      el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
     9  1.1        -> NONE       el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/appendix.decl
    10  1.1        -> NONE       el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/chapter.decl
    11  1.233      -> 1.236      el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
    12  1.288      -> 1.290      el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
    13  1.73       -> 1.74       el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/mac/chapter.sgml
    14  1.1        -> 1.116      el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.sgml
    15  1.323      -> 1.334      el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml
    16  1.45       -> 1.46       el_GR.ISO8859-7/books/handbook/vinum/chapter.sgml
    17  NO-%SRCID% -> 1.34       el_GR.ISO8859-7/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml
    18  1.43       -> 1.44       el_GR.ISO8859-7/share/sgml/trademarks.ent
$

Tonight, I think I am going to work on bringing the “new-users” and “problem-reports” articles up to date. Here’s to hope that the “checkupdate” output list will be shorter tomorrow :)

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