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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: it_IT: remove references to original documents
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:08:45 -0700
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Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> writes:

> Hello Akira,
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 11:15:12AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:45:46 +0100, Federico Vaga wrote:
>>> A relatively recent improvement to the document building process added a
>>> functionality to point to documents in different languages. Hence, it is
>>> not necessary to add an explicit link to the main English page.
>>
>>It might be true as far as htmldocs is concerned, but please remember
>>there are other targets such as latexdocs, epubdocs, etc., where the
>>translations extension has no effect.
>
> You are peferctly right. However, I do not see a significant value in these
> references if they are not hyperlinks in a browser.
>
> The reader of a translation might use the reference I'm removing in this patch
> to quickly access the original document. But in theory it should come back once
> clarified the doubts. (Otherwise there is no point in reading a translation if
> then you stay on another language)
>
> This easy way to go back and forth is offered only by using a web browser.

Remember, though, that we aim to keep the plain-text docs as readable as
we possibly can; the translation extension isn't helpful there.

My inclination would be to keep the references in place.  That said,
you're in charge of the Italian translations; if you want to take them
out I'll apply the patch.

Thanks,

jon