Remove all translations

[raphinesse]

Doc translations are not being actively maintained and are thus outdated. Furthermore, at least some of the existing translations seem to be really bad too. Consequently I propose to remove all translations from the docs.

I checked the guide entry page in German and it's so horribly bad that it can be considered totally useless IMO. OTOH, doing a Google translation of the English version yields a really helpful and comprehensible text.

Related to apache/cordova#29

[erisu]

I am also in favor of removing the translated docs. 👍

[dblotsky]

Many people use old versions of Cordova, and the docs for those versions are still valid.

Also, why not dedicate effort to reviving translations?

[raphinesse]

@dblotsky

We have very limited resources. We should not put any effort into supporting old versions of Cordova let alone 10 translations of their docs.

But they do generate work by just being there: longer build times, problems during updates of dependencies, increased complexity of build, increased repository checkout size, ...

Also, as I already stated above, the quality of at least some of these translations is so bad, that no value can be attributed to them whatsoever.

[janpio]

Also, why not dedicate effort to reviving translations?

Nobody was interested the last time we had this discussion, nobody popped up in the meantime, and even if somebody appears now they have to start from 0 as adapting what is there is probably more work than just starting from nothing.

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In my previous suggestions on this topic, I normally only thought about removing translations from a future/current CLI version. But in the last few months, my opinion changed as well to us removing the existing translations completely. Even for old versions they are broken and misleading.

Only thing we have to take care of is that all the old links redirect to their correct English versions. This is a challenge, as sometimes there exist (outdated) translations for content that does not exist in the English version of the docs - so we will need to spend some effort to figure that out and find good redirection targets.

[dblotsky]

I think I agree then: if we have no resources to maintain translations, it's better to remove them than have bad ones.

[szotp]

Please remove translations ASAP, my search results for cordova are polluted with these machine translated, indecipherable titles. I had to change my browser's language settings just to be able to do my tasks.