Translation process

[Nico Düsing]

Hi,

as I'm a newcomer here who has never contributed to translations before 
the process looks very complicated and is not well documented. But from 
different sources I think I understood it.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but the process for translations is the 
following?
1. I check if a translation already exists. So I (just) have to know 
that I need this link:
https://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kf5/team/de/websites-endof10-org/
2. It tells me that no translation exists, so I need to find the po file 
of the thing I want to translate (here End of 10 website) in SVN and 
download it.
3. I need to install Lokalize on my computer.
4. I have to configure Lokalize, so it works correctly with the KDE setup.
5. I do the translations
6. I have to create a diff file with the command line with SVN (so I 
have to install that as well?)
7. I visit another website called https://phabricator.kde.org/ and log 
in there.
8. I upload the po diff file there.
9. After the review process someone is copying the file into SVG.

And after that I would maybe be surprised that someone else was already 
working on that there. So instead I would maybe add steps in that 
process like ask a mailing list I need to know somehow and wait for a 
day before starting? So I need to know 4 different tools:
- l10n.kde.org
- websvn.kde.org / SVN
- Lokalize
- phabricator.kde.org

Is that really a good process? Why do I need to install a tool on my 
computer? That could be a website. Why do I need SVN? Why diff files? 
Wouldn't it be better to have a tool like Pontoon? There the process is:

1. I log in
2. I open the project
3. I add the translations
4. Others approve the change.

I can even see how other languages translated the same text, so if I 
speak English, German, Spanish and French, I can look into the Spanish 
and French translations as well, when I do the German translation. You 
always see the newest translations, can approve new translations, see 
terms and a history of older translations and comments, etc.

Here is a link to how it looks like:
https://pontoon.mozilla.org/de/firefox-profiler/app.ftl/?string=224494

Or couldn't we at least have a git repo, where I just can
1. checkout the repo
2. I need to install Lokalize on my computer.
3. I have to configure Lokalize, so it works correctly with the KDE setup.
4. I do the translations
5. commit and push the changes to a new branch
6. create a Merge Request
7. someone else merges the Merge Request
Not as simple or comfortable as Pontoon, but at least simpler than the 
current process.

Regards,
Nico