Many of the external links on golang.google.cn are inaccessible from Mainland China (e.g. *.golang.org, *.blogspot.com, *.googlesource.com), which might cause some troubles for Chinese developers.
Directly removing all inaccessible links would lead to situations like: "For more details, please check out this post" (while there isn't a link, nor is it clear which post it is). Instead, we can keep those links and automatically render a tooltip for blacklisted URLs that is shown if you put your mouse over it (a hover overlay, actually already implemented in the DevSite infrastructure. For instance tensorflow.google.cn, put mouse over the Google logo in the company list to test)
The other route we could take is to separate files, like go_faq.zh.html, and let them slowly be translated by the community. It would be nice to have Chinese translations in the future. We'd have to remember to add content to both in the future, though.
See the discussion on https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/89215 for more context.
/cc @chenglu for checking CN site policies @andybons @bradfitz
Comment From: ALTree
This is not really a "proposal"
The proposal process should be used for any notable change or addition to the language, libraries and tools.
I've changed this to a plain issue and added a NeedsDecision label.
Comment From: mengzhuo
-1 No, I don't think it's a problem for Chinese developers.
Comment From: crvv
I agree that it isn't a problem for developers. But I don't know whether the PRC government will be angry about those links. Maybe Google want to remove those links only to reduce trouble.
Comment From: andybons
We'll be revamping our web site soon. Let's revisit this when that effort starts in earnest.