[sylpheed:33086] Re: Sylpheed 2.7.0 released

[Bob White]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:43:28 -0400
Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:07:57
> +0200 Petr Kovar <pknbe at volny.cz> put fingers to keyboard and said:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org>, Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:34:34 -0400:
> > 
> > > Are we ever going to get updated help/manual/FAQ???  The ones the
> > > currently ship with 2.7.0 (downloaded 10 minutes ago and successfully
> > > compiled on F10) are for version 0.7.3!
> > 
> > Yep, that's a long-standing issue. The Sylpheed documentation team is
> > totally dead for several years if I'm not mistaken, and in my opinion
> > nobody is currently working on the English manual and/or FAQ. 
> > 
> > The Japanese version of documentation is up-to-date though. If I recall
> > correctly, Hiro has asked for volunteers on this list before, so any
> > volunteer with substantial knowledge of Japanese around?
> > 
> > Best,
> > Petr Kovar
> 
> I may, if I can find the time, try this myself, but has anyone tried
> babbelfish or any of the other online translators to see if they could
> provide a starting point for getting the English documentation up to date?
> 
> Bruce
> 

Hi Bruce,

I went to the Japanese site on Google by clicking on the "translate this
page link".  The result actually look pretty good.

Bob W.