Website translation

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Julien,

On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 05:16:01PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> I've learned at the rb meeting that the website could be translated.
> Currently, the translation process looks like this: you clone the repo,
> figure that you need to add your language to _config.yml (languages),
> run bin/i18n.sh to generate the po files, translate the po files,
> create an account on salsa and send an MR.

oh dear.
 
> I've started translating and I'm waiting for my account to be validated
> by an admin.

has this happened by now?

> I manage the translation infrastructure at Guix, where we use Weblate
> for hosting the translations online. I think it's a good choice to make
> it easier, even for technical translators, to focus on their work. It
> includes a shared glossary, lint checks, screenshots, and support for
> automatic update and commit.

I agree from what I've seen with debian-edu-doc, which is also using
Weblate (and which I maintain except the translations...)

> Guix is hosted on Fedora's instance because they are open to other
> projects, and because the default instance used to use non-free
> javascript, which we didn't want our translators to be subjected to. It
> seems that it's no longer the case, so I have no strong argument
> against using it anymore. Maybe Debian has an instance or a similar
> system?

we're actually using https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-edu-documentation/bookworm-manual/
 
> In terms of security, the Weblate instance needs to be allowed to pull
> and push commits to the repository. The server has an SSH key that
> needs to be added to an account on salsa (it could be a dedicated
> account or someone's account).

for debian-edu-doc we use a weblate branch which is manually synced
by a translation coordinator and manually merged into main too.

I think I prefer such a modell for the reproducible-website.git translations
too, at least for a start. Would you like to pick up that role? :)

> What do people think?

I <3 translated content, thank you for working on that!


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cheers,
	Holger

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