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== Goal == | == Goal == | ||
- | + | A web based system to do community translations of: | |
* published Nokia applications | * published Nokia applications | ||
* community provided applications | * community provided applications | ||
* third party commercial applications | * third party commercial applications | ||
- | The | + | The system is using a customized version of Transifex and integrated nicely with the whole Maemo.org infrastructure. |
- | + | == Terms == | |
- | + | * Teams: Logical team consisting of translators (eg. de, cat, id) | |
- | + | * Collection: Groups of projects (eg. Maemo, GNOME, KDE) | |
- | + | * Project: Project to be translated (eg. conboy, gPodder) | |
- | + | * Developer (Owner): A person who create a project | |
- | + | * Maintainer : A person who has permissions to edit Project, Components and grant permissions for submissions to other users. | |
- | == | + | * Component: A specific branch/release of aproject |
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- | * Collection: Groups of projects (eg. Maemo, GNOME, KDE) | + | |
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- | * Component: A specific branch/release of | + | |
* Team Owner: Person who creates a team | * Team Owner: Person who creates a team | ||
* Coordinator: Person who manages the team | * Coordinator: Person who manages the team | ||
- | == | + | ==Process Notes== |
This is how the system works in several point of views. | This is how the system works in several point of views. | ||
=== Developer point of view === | === Developer point of view === | ||
- | ==== | + | ==== Initial creation ==== |
- | * Create | + | * Create a project in garage, tick "[] I want to be translatable" |
- | + | or | |
- | + | * Create a project somewhere else and create the project translation in the system | |
- | + | * Give authorization to Transifex to submit translations | |
- | * Give authorization to | + | |
==== String freeze ==== | ==== String freeze ==== | ||
- | In the component view, developer selects date for upcoming | + | In the component view, developer selects date for upcoming release date and string freeze. Translators can see the dates in the calendar in dashboard. |
==== Communication ==== | ==== Communication ==== | ||
- | Developer can initiate mass message for subscriber of the project | + | Developer can initiate mass message for subscriber of the project |
=== Translator point of view === | === Translator point of view === | ||
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==== Team building ==== | ==== Team building ==== | ||
* Team owner requests a team creation for a language | * Team owner requests a team creation for a language | ||
- | * After team | + | * After team owner can add translators/coordinator/reviewers |
* translator joining a team, getting approval from coordinator to commit translations for all of the projects. | * translator joining a team, getting approval from coordinator to commit translations for all of the projects. | ||
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* Reviewer gets notifications of a ready-to-review translation | * Reviewer gets notifications of a ready-to-review translation | ||
* Reviewer reviews the translations, | * Reviewer reviews the translations, | ||
- | + | * If the translation is accepted, the state of the translation is now "Approved" and pushed to upstream (or exported as packages) | |
- | + | * If the translation is rejected then the translation state is "Rejected" and the translator gets notification | |
=== Coordinator === | === Coordinator === | ||
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There will be no special interface for coordinator to do tasks above. | There will be no special interface for coordinator to do tasks above. | ||
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+ | ==Other Notes== | ||
=What needs to be done= | =What needs to be done= | ||
- | There are three parties needed to realize the community localizations. Those are | + | There are three parties needed to realize the community localizations. Those are Noka, Transifex.net and Maemo.org. For each of them we collected a prioritized list of deliverables. |
==Nokia== | ==Nokia== | ||
- | * Needs to | + | * Needs to provided the funds |
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* Should open the official language selection dialog in order to make it display not only official translations but also community translations. The language selection dialog in Fremantle uses a hard coded list. This should be changed in Harmattan. Instead of a hard coded list it should display all installed translations. | * Should open the official language selection dialog in order to make it display not only official translations but also community translations. The language selection dialog in Fremantle uses a hard coded list. This should be changed in Harmattan. Instead of a hard coded list it should display all installed translations. | ||
* Could integrate community translations into the first-start setup dialog. There are currently only official translations selectable. There could be an option to let the user download and install community translations. If needed of course with a disclaimer. | * Could integrate community translations into the first-start setup dialog. There are currently only official translations selectable. There could be an option to let the user download and install community translations. If needed of course with a disclaimer. | ||
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* Needs to support for roles (Owner, Coordinator, Translator, Reviewer, Developer) | * Needs to support for roles (Owner, Coordinator, Translator, Reviewer, Developer) | ||
* Needs to provide a reviewing system | * Needs to provide a reviewing system | ||
- | * | + | * Should get support for .po files using logical IDs. Logical IDs are used by Nokia internal software like, for example, the media player. |
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* Should be able to show a license page to translators. Translators have to agree to commit there translations using that license. | * Should be able to show a license page to translators. Translators have to agree to commit there translations using that license. | ||
* Should support access rights on collections. With that translators can get commit rights to all maemo.org projects without having to request permissions to each single project. | * Should support access rights on collections. With that translators can get commit rights to all maemo.org projects without having to request permissions to each single project. | ||
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* Could include translation-toolkit to catch common translation errors. | * Could include translation-toolkit to catch common translation errors. | ||
* Needs to support 1:n translations. They will be used in Maemo 6 to provided strings with different length (e.g. portrait/landscape orientation). The number of variants may vary from language to language. | * Needs to support 1:n translations. They will be used in Maemo 6 to provided strings with different length (e.g. portrait/landscape orientation). The number of variants may vary from language to language. | ||
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==Maemo.org== | ==Maemo.org== | ||
- | * Needs to write | + | * Needs to write a system to create Debian packages out of translations for closed applications. (E.g. Arabic translation of Nokias media player) |
- | * Should add support for | + | * Should add support for Karma generated by translation work on transifex.net |
* Should offer single sign on with transifex.net | * Should offer single sign on with transifex.net | ||
* Could offer new garage projects to automatically create a corresponding transifex.net project. | * Could offer new garage projects to automatically create a corresponding transifex.net project. | ||
- | * Could write | + | * Could write Maemo 5 software to let users switch between community supported languages, because the default tool uses a hard coded list of languages. |
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