[Freeipa-devel] Reviving FreeIPA translations

[Martin Basti]

On 13.05.2016 13:32, Martin Kosek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As you may or may not know, Tomas Babej left the FreeIPA team as a Red Hat
> employee, which of course does not mean he cannot contribute to the FreeIPA
> project, but that he won't have as much time for contributions as previously.
>
> One of Tomas' responsibilities was taking care of FreeIPA translations
> (Translation Maintainer role). As far as I know, there 2 main tasks associated
> with the Translation Maintainer role:
>
> 1) Periodically uploading new upstream strings to the FreeIPA translation
> platform of choice, which is the Fedora Zanata instance:
> https://fedora.zanata.org/project/view/freeipa
> The upload should happen periodically, on the right occasions, so that the
> translators (especially the French and Ukrainian translations which have 100%
> translated) have sufficient time to translate strings for the next version and
> do not have to translate it all in couple days before release. (This was one of
> the feedback I heard recently).
>
> 2) Downloading translated strings, Tomas added a short HowTo to our Release page:
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Release#Translations
>
> We will need a new volunteer who would help doing 1) and 2) for the planned
> releases and making sure this process runs. The first task would be uploading
> current strings in master as the next release is FreeIPA 4.4 planned for June,
> so it may be nice to already upload new strings we have in FreeIPA already to
> Zanata, so that they can be translated in sufficient time.
>
> Volunteer(s)?
>
> As part of the learning process, I think it would be useful to do more
> documentation of the steps taken in every translation life-cycle, current HowTo
> in Release page is rather vague. I for example did not find information how to
> work with translation versions that I saw defined in Zanata (branching may work
> similarly as in current FreeIPA git).
>
I volunteer

Martin^2