[monitoring-plugins] Docs: remove sections about translation

RincewindsHat git at monitoring-plugins.org
Tue Oct 15 10:50:12 CEST 2024


 Module: monitoring-plugins
 Branch: master
 Commit: 2b1b5c1ce9c70df9853fa4ac01d740d6a7e45d37
 Author: RincewindsHat <12514511+RincewindsHat at users.noreply.github.com>
   Date: Tue Oct 15 09:32:28 2024 +0200
    URL: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/repositories/monitoring-plugins/commit/?id=2b1b5c1

Docs: remove sections about translation

This commit removes the sections about translations, because, well,
we removed translations a while ago.
The documentation should reflect that.

---

 doc/developer-guidelines.sgml | 33 ---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index edadaad..4186ed7 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -376,13 +376,6 @@
 		<para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Monitoring Plugins
 		performance data into graphs.</para>
 		</section>
-
-	<section><title>Translations</title>
-	<para>If possible, use translation tools for all output to respect the user's language
-		settings. See <xref linkend="translationsdevelopers"> for guidelines
-		for the core plugins.
-	</para>
-	</section>
 </section>
 
 <section id="SysCmdAuxFiles"><title>System Commands and Auxiliary Files</title>
@@ -749,32 +742,6 @@ setup the tests. Run "make test" to run all the tests.
 	<para>All commits will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
 	</para>
 	</section>
-
-	<section id="translationsdevelopers"><title>Translations for developers</title>
-	<para>To make the job easier for translators, please follow these guidelines:</para>
-	<orderedlist>
-	  <listitem><para>
-	    Before creating new strings, check the po/monitoring-plugins.pot file to
-	    see if a similar string
-	    already exists
-	  </para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>
-	    For help texts, break into individual options so that these can be reused
-	    between plugins
-	  </para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Try to avoid linefeeds unless you are working on a block of text</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Short help is not translated</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Long help has options in English language, but text translated</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>"Copyright" kept in English</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Copyright holder names kept in original text</para></listitem>
-	  <listitem><para>Debugging output does not need to be translated</para></listitem>
-	</orderedlist>
-	</section>
-
-	<section><title>Translations for translators</title>
-	<para>To create an up to date list of translatable strings, run: tools/gen_locale.sh</para>
-	</section>
-
 </section>
 
 <section id="SubmittingChanges"><title>Submission of new plugins and patches</title>



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