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Very good Daisy, Thanks for the updates.

Let's do this! :)

Regards,
Gabriel.



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Ying Chun Guo <guoyingc at cn.ibm.com> wrote:

>  Hi, all
>
> The openstack summit was held last week.
> There were 4 sessions in total related with OpenStack I18n.
> I had chances to discuss with Doc team, Oslo team, Infra team and release
> management team about I18n tools and processes.
> I got very positive results.
> It turns out that leaders in OpenStack community think I18n as a very
> important area ( which is great ).
> I summarize what happened in the summit here.
>
> 1. Publishing translated documentation (
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-doc-translation)
>
> The translated document publish process was discussed in this session.
> The decision was to have two servers to publish translated documents:
> official server and staging server.
> The official server will be used to publish the well translated documents.
> Staging server will be used to host the ongoing translated documents,
> which will help the review process.
>
> 2. Translation tools and scripts (
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-summit-translation-tools-and-scripts
> )
>
> This discussion was held to decide whether we went away from Transifex
> (because of some well known reasons,
> if you don't know, please contact me) and moved to another translation
> platform.
> After comparing with several famous translation platforms, we figured out
> Transifex was the best one till now.
> As Transifex won't trun off in a short time, we will continue to use
> Transifex.
> At the same time, we will contact Transifex as well as other translation
> tool communities, to raise the feature
> requirements and see how they can satisfy us. Then we make decision in
> several months.
>
> 3. I18n policies of messages (
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-oslo-i18n-policies)
>
> This session was to discuss the messages translation policies.
> The result was to separate messages ( log messages, API response messages,
> and etc ) into different po files,
> and let translation teams/coordinators to decide the translation
> priorities.
> Another result was to introduce message IDs to log messages, which will
> enable searching and bug diagnosis
> if log messages are not in English. (It's a great change from the software
> architecture view.)
>
> 4. Icehouse release schedule & coordination
>
> I had chance to explain our translation process with "big guys" in
> Openstack community.
> This session is more related with messages translation than documents
> translation.
> In a release cycle, message translations will be continuously imported
> into git repository.
> At last, the translation teams can decide which languages should be
> shipped with release.
> (None translation team supported languages will be removed.)
>
> Havana was called a conclusion, and Icehouse was just kicked off.
> We shall also make our plans in this release cycle.
>
> I have the following items in my mind:
>
> 1. Publish Japanese operation guide in the website.
> Operation guide in other languages are welcomed too.
> For translation teams, if you have plans to translate, please let me know.
> We can figure out a reasonable plan for the translation work.
>
> 2. Re-organize the I18n wiki page.
> Clearly list our team structure.
> I plan to use "I18n team" and "L10n teams" to manage.
> I18n team will be responsible for OpenStack I18n, which means to help
> OpenStack to become a software
> that can be localized. I18n includes setting up translation process,
> changing code infrastructure, and so on.
> L10n teams will be responsible for OpenStack L10n, including translation
> and localization.
> People can join both I18n team and his/her L10n team. People can join only
> 1 team also.
> The wiki page shall list clearly these information.
> Here are good samples: https://l10n.gnome.org/teams/  and
> http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/.
>
> 3. Use Launchpad to manage bugs and blueprints.
> Find a way to track the contributors.
> If we are not able to track them automatically, let's track them manually.
> Coordinators please help to track the contributors to your language
> translations.
> At least, remember and display their names.
>
> 4. Enable translation function in MediaWiki
> If we want to translate wiki page, we will use the translation function in
> MediaWiki itself to manage.
>
> 5. Separate log messages into different po files & enable messages IDs
> This work may need more developers to join.
>
> 6. Contact with Transifex, Pootle, Zanata, TranslationWiki to raise
> feature requirements.
>
> 7. Set up staging server for translated document review.
>
> 8. Continue translations in documents and messages.
>
> Surely I'm not able to do all these works myself and I need all kinds of
> help.
> If you are suggests/comments to these items, please speak out.
> If you are interested in some, please sign up.
> Let's start the discussion in the mailing list.
>
> We missed 1 IRC meeting because of the summit.
> We will have next IRC meeting next week on Nov 21th.
> At that time, hope we can have a clear plan at that time.
>
> Regards
> Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)
>
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