[haiku-doc] Re: Another try at user guide translations

amore cosa dice Humdinger?

2009/7/16 Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi there!
>
> Once again, I've been thinking on how to organize translations of the user
> guide...
> After much pondering on what's necessary to create a website and its
> database back-end to keep all translations in sync, I realized that it
> quickly becomes too complex to be easily implemented, especially considering
> I have no idea how to actually code such things.
>
> I was wondering if we shouldn't use a low tech interim solution. Maybe one
> day we'll find/create a sophisticated system and just import what
> translations we have by then and maintain it more efficiently.
>
> My suggestion for a low tech approach:
> One coordinator (plus a backup) maintains a spreadsheet with all
> translations and their versions. The HTML of all languages as well as the
> spreadsheet itself live in SVN alongside the English pages. I've created an
> OpenOffice spreadsheet, see screenshot of the top few rows at
> http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1615/translationtrackersprea.png
> The table can also be exported as HTML.
>
> After the column of the files and their current English revision come all
> the different languages ("de" and "fr" in the linked shot).
> Every language has a cell indicating if the translation needs updating (red)
> or is up-to-date (green) by comparing the current English revision with the
> one used for the translation. Another smaller cell shows if a page is
> currently checked out (yellow) or available (white).
> "rev4trans" is the English revision that was used for the translation of the
> file.
> "co date/user/en-rev" are the details when a page is checked-out for
> translation. "co en-rev" is the English revision at the time the page was
> checked out, thereby tracking if the English page was changed while the
> translation was going on (which should be avoided if possible).
>
>
>
> Maintaining that spreadsheet is the job of the coordinator. He also hands
> out a page to a translator who requested it on the documentation mailing
> list, fills in the details in the spreadsheet and commits pages to SVN.
> I know this manual labor is not ideal, but I am willing to do that for the
> foreseeable future. I don't think it's that much work anyway... :)
>
> English pages are still the originals for all other languages, i.e. new
> pages and updates have to be done for English first.
>
> I hope you agree that this is a workable solution. Granted, it depends on
> the translators being comfortable with editing HTML files, but I think
> that's not a big problem for our current clientele. Everyone is quite
> technical and also doesn't mind to learn a thing on the way. It's not rocket
> science. :)
>
> Anyway, this is my proposal. I fear if we don't start somewhere and keep
> waiting for a perfect online solution to pop up, it just won't get done.
> Seeing Adrien's progress on enabling localization of the system, I think
> it's time to start now.
>
> Thanks and sorry for the long mail... :)
>
> Regards,
> Humdinger
>
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