make reproducible-builds.org translatable?

Daniel Shahaf danielsh at apache.org
Thu Apr 30 19:36:02 UTC 2020


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:14 +00:00:
> 
> 
> Daniel Shahaf:
> > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:05 +0200:
> >> Daniel Shahaf:
> >>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:44 +0200:  
> >>>> Mattia Rizzolo:  
> >>>>> I didn't check, but is the proposed framework able to properly track
> >>>>> translation updates?    
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course, that's an essential part of any localization process.  
> >>>
> >>> What happens between the update of an English original and the time an
> >>> update translation is pulled and deployed?  Will there be, say,
> >>> "English last updated on: ${DATE1} / This translation last updated on:  
> >>> ${DATE2}" information on the translated page?  (I don't see anything  
> >>> like that on fdroid which you linked to, but that doesn't mean much.)  
> >>
> >> With websites, there isn't clearly defined workflows for this, so you
> >> have to define it.  po4a and Weblate provide tools to do it.  The
> >> easiest is to set po4a's --keep to 80%, which will automatically revert
> >> pages to English if they fall below 80% translated.  Then just take
> >> translation updates as they come from Weblate.
> > 
> > My concern was to inform users of a translated page that's behind the
> > English master that the content they're reading is out-of-date, and
> > give them a way to access the content the translation lacks, albeit in
> > English.
> > 
> > I don't see how using --keep=80% would address that.  It would seem that
> > if a page had been 100% translated and had fallen to 95% because of
> > a recent update to the English content, there would be no indication of
> > that in the translated page, so readers of the translated page wouldn't
> > know there are updates they aren't seeing.  What am I missing?
> 
> When the translation level of a given page falls below the "keep"
> percentage, that page is reverted to English. Try clicking on the fdroid
> docs, you'll see how it works:
> 
> https://f-droid.org/zh_Hans/docs/

Yes, you already said this once.  I replied that it does not address my
concern.


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