[Qgis-community-team] Web translations

Mon Mar 4 12:57:44 PST 2013

Hi,

I believe to have a web solution would be great, but there will still be
problems with parts of the manual that can not be translated yet.To switch
to pootle and then find out that the english reST document still needs to
be changed is realistic. Documents with footers can not be translated,
Inline code block where lines end with ::
 give problems and there are some other problems to overcome. Figures far
too small because a smaller font is used in the theme where the units used
for the size of figures is related to used fonts. The caption of figures
that can not be translated nor the code.  All in all, I believe github is
not really the biggest problem. The challenge  to make sure that all parts
of documents can be translated is probably a bigger one. Maybe we should
stop using captions for tables and figures. I looked at other manuals build
on reST and found they are missing there as well.

Regards,
Diethard

2013/3/4 Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de>

> Hi,
>
> @Werner: ok fine - thanks a lot! Would be great, if you could have a look
> at
> it.
>
> @Paolo Co: Could you have a look at pootle again and make it work? And if a
> translation team decides to only use pootle for their language, do you
> think
> it would work stable then?
>
> Regards
> Otto
>
> Am Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:38:27 +0100
> schrieb Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I already created a QGIS Project in transifex in march 2011 (not to loose
> > the name) but it was a bit complicated at that time ..
> > probably time to take a look again ..
> > I already had 6 requests for participating in new languages on transifex
> ..
> > unfortunately as long as it is not included it's not really useable ..
> > But .. Valmiera .. here we come :)
> >
> > kind regards
> > Werner
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > ok, does somebody have time to investigate Transifex software during
> the
> > > hackfest?
> > >
> > > I think it is not an option that all translators switch to pootle, if
> it
> > > is not really stable with github. And I guess we will always need to
> > > work with other tools on the github repo from time to time, don't we?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Otto
> > >
> > >
> > > Am Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:04:36 +0100
> > > schrieb Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys
> > > > the Pootle application was operative until some weeks/months ago.
> > > > I think it should be as easy as fixing some soft link to the server:
> > > > those soft links, one for each language, should point to each
> language
> > > > directory containing the .po translation files, for example for
> > > > Italian there should be a soft link to this directory:
> > > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/tree/master/i18n/it.
> > > > I could try to give a try tonight and fix it.
> > > > The major concern with Pootle is the possibility of generating
> > > > conflicts when it is in a workflow where it is not the only tool
> being
> > > > used for translation.
> > > > Meanwhile it should be worth to give a deep look to the Transifex
> > > > software, that is being used by some of very popular projects
> (Django,
> > > > OpenStack..) and it should have a more solid gitHub integration.
> > > > regards
> > > > p
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > What about looking at it in Valmiera!
> > > > > I would also welcome the possibility to also include the GUI
> > > translation
> > > > > files into the web-based translation ..
> > > > > We should make the entrance as easy as possible for helping hands..
> > > > >
> > > > > regards
> > > > > werner
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de
> >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Hi,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> maybe Paolo Corti could have a look again?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Regards
> > > > >> Otto
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Am Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:07:42 +0100
> > > > >> schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> > > > >>
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> > > > >> > Hash: SHA1
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Hi all.
> > > > >> > git is proving a significant hindrance for translation
> volunteers.
> > > > >> > What is
> > > > >> > the state of the web translation interface?
> > > http://translate.qgis.org/
> > > > >> > seems unused. Would it be possible to activate it? I think this
> > > > >> > will greatly help widening our translators base.
> > > > >> > All the best.
> > > > >> > - --
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