Translations wiki page.

[Federico Caminiti]

Great!
I'll see if I can take a look at it later this week.




2016-03-20 23:10 GMT-03:00 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote:
>
> Since a few users have expressed an interest in translating things
>> recently, I was wondering if someone could create a page on the wiki so
>> that we can coordinate efforts. My idea was to have a list of all of the
>> documents in the doc tree with three columns: "Document", "Status" and
>> "Taken by". The first columns would show the name of the document to
>> translate, the second the status (translated, needs updating, not
>> translated, etc...) and the third the person who's currently working on it
>> (if any).
>>
>> I think it would be useful because someone looking for a document to
>> translate wouldn't overlap with existing efforts and It would be a
>> reliable
>> guide to the status of the documentation.
>>
>
> Such a table would need to updated manually.  Maybe we can use the
> existing systems to generate that information automatically.
>
> In http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/translation/ are the materials for the
> "Improving the FreeBSD Translation Tools" presentation I gave at AsiaBSDCon
> last week, and will be giving at BSDCan in June.
>
> There is a docdates.sh script there which queries the doc repository for
> translations.  We can already add MAINTAINER variables to the translation
> Makefiles.  That script is 90% of the way to showing the information on how
> recently a translation has been updated and who is maintaining it.
>
> Then we would not need to manually maintain a table with that information.
>
> As shell scripts go, I'd say it is less terrible than many, and probably
> not too hard to modify.  But I don't know when I'd be able to work on it
> myself, and help is welcome with that.
>