[Live-demo] Motion: Changing translation system to use Sphinx internationalization instead of directory approach

[Thomas Gratier]

Hi,

I will work on this next week. I was quite busy with job.
I will make a branch to create a first working demo with my Github user
name and then start discussion with explanations in a markdown file in this
discussion

Cheers

Thomas

2015-09-16 11:00 GMT+02:00 Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> Since the 9.0 release is now out, this would be the best time to start the
> move to Sphinx internationalization, to give time to translators to catch
> up with the new system. I think 6 months are more than enough ;)
>
> How should we proceed?
> I propose we create a git branch until it is ready for a pull request.
> Thoughts?
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 07/18/2015 04:14 PM, Thomas Gratier wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a discussion at FOSS4G Europe about using Sphinx internationalization<http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/intl.html> <http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/intl.html> (i18n) instead of the current
> directory approach.
>
> Why?
> It's already used in QGIS project, MapServer project, Python project,..
>
> The advantages:
>
> * Untied translators and contributors jobs by using Transifex
> * Keeping the translation updated. For instance, if I do a translation in
> French, then the English doc evolves slightly, it's difficult to track the
> differences and I need to read nearly everything again or browse the
> original file history then apply the change in French. It's not friendly IMO
> * Do not use symbolic links when missing files: fallback to english
> directly with i18n and not issue with Git (try to build the doc and do a
> "git status" to understand)
>
> If you wonder about the simplicity of Transifex, you can see the MapServer
> documentation at http://mapserver.org/fr/development/translation.html
>
> The drawbacks:
>
> * It can't make documents differ per language (strict translation)
>
> I've already worked a bit to make things happen about this at the code
> sprint but I would like to reorganize the documentation to improve the
> experience.
>
> Do you have any opinions before I go further?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Thomas Gratier
>
>
>
>
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