Re: Improving the translation process

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 6 février 2020 12:01:51 GMT-05:00, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> a écrit :
>Hi guix!
>
>Our current translation process involves sending a source tarball to
>the TP. Updating a translation is a manual process that can't be done
>too often, and I don't think the TP is very user friendly. I'd like to
>set up another service, such as weblate.
>
>The Fedora people have recently switched to it and are inviting other
>free software projects, so it could be a nice way to setup this new
>process, before we can make our own service and host it. I've talked
>with someone responsible for weblate at Fedora, and they would be
>pleased to help us. We could also apply for the main instance at
>hosted.weblate.org.
>
>As I see it, we don't want any of these instances to have push rights
>on our repos. The idea is to have a separately hosted repo for
>translations, used only by weblate. We would host a bot to regularly 
>push up-to-date pot files to that intermediate repo, which will update
>weblate's data. Weblate would push to that repo and any guix commiter
>would be able to download, check and commit new po files. No commiter
>would need to have write access to that repo: only the bot and weblate
>would use it. It could be on savannah or fedora's inhrastructure or

Actually, not on fedora's infrastructure :) but hosting a repo on a server or on a separate namespace at savannah shouldn't be too complicated.

>somewhere else, but not in the guix namespace at savannah, because
>access rights are per-namespace iiuc.
>
>This new process would allow for daily or weekly updates of
>translations, which fits better with our rolling-release model and will
>help translators of the manual do work on a regular basis instead of
>per-release. The interface is way more understandable for newcomers who
>will quickly understand how to contribute. The downside is, as always,
>more fragmentation in the l10n community esp. if we go for our own
>instance.
>
>WDYT?