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On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:

> On 31/12/13 12:00, Anne Gentle wrote:
> > All sounds right to me, including Andreas's head start on step 0.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com
> > <mailto:aj at suse.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 12/30/2013 02:37 PM, Tom Fifield wrote:
> >     > Hi all,
> >     >
> >     > I've been contacted by someone who might have resources to do some
> >     > translation of the api reference. However, I'm not 100% clear on
> the
> >     > tooling changes required.
> >     >
> >     > It looks like we need to
> >     >
> >     > 0) change infra, so that openstack-doc-tools is available to jobs
> >     in the
> >     > openstack-api-site repo
> >
> >     Yeah, I'm working on that part and currently are blocked by an infra
> >     review ( https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62984/ ).
> >
> >     I've also done over the last days quite some changes to
> >     openstack-doc-tools so that it can gate the api-site repo.
> >
> >     Reviews are welcome:
> >
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/openstack-doc-tools,n,z
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Andreas
> >
> >     > 1) make openstack-doc-tools/bin/generatepot work with the WADL
> format,
> >     > if it doesn't already
> >
> >
> > One thought here is that the text that would be translated may already
> > be in the docbook markup, so hopefully there won't be much work to do
> here.
>
> *fingers crossed*
>
> >
> >     > 2) change infra, so that changes to openstack-api-site are
> >     propogated to
> >     > the translation system, like they are already for openstack-manuals
> >     >
> >     > did I miss anything?
> >
> >
> > One additional thought is that the html output for api-ref.html hasn't
> > had any translation consideration at all for wrapping, text size, fonts,
> > and so on. Also, it's possible that the table titles are encoded in the
> > xslts themselves. Diane and David may know more.
>

I talked to David and he said there are English words and phrases that
would need to be parameterized and call an external translated file.


>
> A good point! I wonder how it will look :D
>
> > Also, one last thought, I'd like to know more about the reason for
> > prioritizing an API reference so highly? I thought that other
> > translation efforts hadn't prioritized API info as high as other items,
> > so I'm curious about the audience and their need. If they're SDK devs
> > that's great. Or if user guides and other guides are already done and
> > they're looking for more to translate, that's cool too. Just want to
> > know more background if you can share.
>
> This is the desire of the organisation with resources :) I guess it
> comes from customer requirements. Though, of course we're also going to
> try and rope anyone and everyone in to other documents more in line with
> the project priorities wherever we can - if someone wants to translate
> something specific, we should support IMO! :)
>
>
Certainly, not saying anything but that, just wanting to know more. Contact
me privately if that's the desire of the translators.

Thanks,
Anne


> >
> > Anne
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Regards,
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Tom
> >     >
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