[Projects] [OSGeo-Live] Moving to Transifex - step 2 - Battle testing

[Nicolas Roelandt]

Dear OSGeo members and contributors,

We are excited to announce that after many months work, we have set up the
Transifex platform to run OSGeo-Live translations [1], and we want help
battle testing it in several languages.

Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our
translation experience (over our previous manual spreadsheet / git / .rst
process).

It offers machine translation.
It provides a review process.
It shows us what is changed in the English doc version.
It shows translation progress

What is involved

We describe what to do in our first draft of the translator guide [2]. For
testing the infrastructure, translated files are needed. You can translate
based on the priority mark, or on the amount of lines to be translated, or
complete a translation that someone else started, or start with your own
project. Note that we already marked files that don't need translation.

Please tell us if the guide makes sense. (The guide is probably more for a
reviewer than for a translator.) If the images below don't show in your
mail, they are included in our translator guide [2]

They are mark with a red >> on the left.

Link to image:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:OSGEo-Live_transifex_01_index.png


After that testing phase, we will work on translating included projects,
where people from the projects can help us.

Those files generally start by overview-- or quickstart-- and are mark with
an orange >

Link to image:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:OSGEo-Live_transifex_02_second_priority.png


The files marked with a green dash don't need to be translated (and would
be retired at some point).

Link to image:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/thumb/9/95/OSGEo-Live_transifex_03_retired_files.png/500px-OSGEo-Live_transifex_03_retired_files.png


Best way to start is to filter for v11 files and descending priority:

Link to image:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/thumb/3/3c/OSGEo-Live_transifex_04_priority.png/500px-OSGEo-Live_transifex_04_priority.png

As you can see on the dashboard [3], we already have 8 languages registered
waiting for translators:

- finnish
- french
- german
- greek
- japanese
- polish
- spanish
- Mexican spanish

If you can help us translating those languages, or help us with another,
please create an account on transifex and join us.


Pro. tip: you can copy/paste translations from current documentation [4] or
from github [5] and check whether it still fits in with the string to
translate.

If you have any question, please join us through the Transifex platform, on
IRC or on the OSGeo-Live mailing list [6].

Best regards,


Vicky Vergara and Nicolas Roelandt

OSGeo-Live team


[1] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#
WORK_IN_PROGRESS

[3] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/languages/

[4]  https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

[5] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/

[6] OSGeo-Live contact us: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/
Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us

[7] OSGeo-Live Press Release : https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/
Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_80
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