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.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 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>