KDE.org internalization

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Nov 2 21:44:55 GMT 2020


El dilluns, 2 de novembre de 2020, a les 19:43:14 CET, Iñigo Salvador Azurmendi va escriure:
> By the way, is this mailing list the place to ask for website related issues?

If they are not translation related, no. If they are translation related, sure.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thanks,
> Iñigo
> 
> 
> 2020ko urriak 22, osteguna 21:04:27 (CET) Carl Schwan idatzi zuen:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I have been doing quite a bit of work on the kde.org website finishing
> > the port to the Hugo static website generator that was started by Anuj
> > during his GSoC.
> > 
> > The new system provides a better internalization system and this
> > should allow translating a bigger part of the kde.org, creating an unique
> > URL for each language (better for search engines), no need to
> > individually tag each strings for translations, and add global language
> > selector. There are also some other advantages like editing markdown
> > instead of html/php for the promo team, autogenerated announcement
> > listing, SEO tag included on every page, ...
> > 
> > The migration is planned for this weekend. I still need to notify the
> > release team and adapt their release scripts to create a correct file
> > and also do a last checkup to make sure I didn't break anything during
> > the migrations.
> > 
> > Now the bad news is that the move will break some strings and add a lot
> > of new strings. The strings that will break are mostly focused on the
> > Plasma 5.0, Plasma 5.1 and Plasma 5.10 which had some really bad i18n()
> > call and trying to make the old strings compatible with the new format
> > would have required writing a complex custom extractor just for these
> > pages.
> > 
> > Most of the new strings are the page titles that were previously not
> > translated, but not only.
> > 
> > I found that often the interesting information from the framework
> > announcements weren't translated because this was added manually (e.g.
> > announcing a new framework).
> > 
> > Same the plasma 5.7 announcement was also only partially translatable and
> > it will be now completely available for translations. Again it would be
> > quite complex to try to remain compatible with the old partially
> > translated page :(
> > 
> > To keep the compatibility between the old translations with the new strings
> > I wrote a small script.
> > https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/blob/work/hugo-script/port.py
> > 
> > I tested it on all the translations and it works now (I found a few small
> > issues with invalid HTML tags that I have now fixed).
> > 
> > That I would need help is merging the kde-org-announcements-releases po
> > files into the kde-org one (this change will merge both repositories).
> > 
> > All the special handling for generating the translations can also be
> > removed and replaced by the system using StaticMessages.sh.
> > 
> > And it would be probably a good idea to not touch this po files during
> > the big migrations.
> > 
> > My goal is also to have the translations fetched at build time with the
> > ci, so that they don't get stored in the git repository.
> > 
> > For those interested, this is the link to the MR
> >  https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/merge_requests/14
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
> 
> 
> 
> 
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