Hi Kévin,

I've read your email a few times looking for feedback that we can implement into Zanata. My takeaway is that there should be a way to create an overall "main product" or "main project" page. So for instance, you could have a Fedora 20 page, that would then provide direct links to all the translation projects that apply to this "main product".

Does that sound like it would be helpful? I believe Ankit raised this idea with us off-list as well.

If this isn't exactly what would assist, or I've only touched the surface I'd be keen to hear more on how we can help the community with this.

Thanks,

Isaac

On 08/29/2013 06:48 PM, Kévin Raymond wrote:
Le mardi 27 août 2013 à 12:54:07 (+0530), Ankit Patel a écrit : 
On 08/26/2013 07:37 PM, Piotr Drąg wrote:
Hi,

I appreciate your efforts, but I'm really confused right now. The only
translation platform endorsed by the Fedora Localization Project is
Transifex. I thought we made it clear that the Installation Guide is
on Zanata only because of some technical limitations in Transifex, and
all the other Fedora projects should be translated through
fedora.transifex.com.
Hi Piotr,

Apologies if I forgot, but I do not recall a decision to have every
Fedora project to be translated through transifex!
First of all, we had all under transifex.fedoraproject.org. At some point
we decided to migrate.
Migration does not mean explosion.
Few people helped to create and move projects to fedora.transifex.net.
That was an amazing job!
The issue is that many developers haven't taken the time to check how
Transifex (0.7 by that time) was working, they haven't managed to update
their repo in order to pull (or push) translations.
We lost many projects here. We have lost quality. Because some dev chose
to migrate somewhere else. That's their choice. But they should have tell
us (their lovely translators) what they did. And (mostly all), never did.
It's insane on the FOSS world, where you ask free translators to develop
your project. You can't just decide to move somewhere else, where they
won't have a chance to follow your work, and their own work.
As translator, sometimes we spend several weeks on translations. Would you
like an unknown translator changing your wording that you did mostly
perfect? It has happened before. It will happen again :(

I thought it's a developer's choice where to host translations.
Hell yes, he has the power. Devel is the god here.
But do dev knows more about translation than translators?
IMHO a dev should not mind about how to translate, just about quality. Of
course he has to choose a [good] platform.. Here at the Fedora Project we
decided to go for transifex.net (transifex.com now).
But I am not sure that we are giving guidelines when creating a new
project at fedorahosted. 


Btw, there are projects (from Fedora I think) hosted on Zanata.
And please, how should we know about them?
Fedora translators look at fedora.transifex.com in order to know what they
have to translate. Even there, we can't find them all, Fedora maintainers
need to update the Fedora Hub releases on their own..

Even if I know that some projects are at Zanata.. I keep focusing at
Transifex because:
- I have a good team there
- I know very well the tools (online, offline)
- I know the pros and cons and deal with them
- I can find easily our priority projects
- I am not bored of life, I have so much help to provide, that I don't
  want to spend time to look for new projects...

Then, to conclude if you want Fedora Translators helping through Zanata
also, you might want to create a Fedora group or something similar, to
filter all Fedora related software.



https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/kexec-tools
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/ibus-libpinyin
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/katello-cli
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/katello
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/subscription-manager
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/candlepin
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/im-chooser
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/imsettings
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/system-config-language
https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/iok
There is the Transifex project.
There is the Zanata project.
But neither of them should be used:
"Currently, I don't plan to create project on zanata or transifex. Even if
you find it there please don't try to submit your translations there." https://fedorahosted.org/iok/

https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/gfs2-utils
Several of the above software are used during L10n test day.
It's bad that we don't have the way to access all translations easily
(meaning of platform and credentials − I know, Zanata is using FAS OpenID,
really appreciated)




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