Re: PostgreSQL website translations

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > Despite the lack of answer, I think there is interest in translating the
> > website. But there's a few things to do before adding the translation. I
> > need to remember what Magnus told me about this last november :) ( ...
> > if I remember well, I had to find some way to figure out if pages are
> > out of date and if possible show the english page if the translated page
> > is out of date ... something like this but Magnus will correct me if I'm
> > wrong). Oh, and the pictures need to be "translatable" too.
>
> My apologies for not responding to this one earlier. It's certainly bee
> on my list to do.
>
> I think what we really need before we can proceed properly with this is
> a "www code hacker" who can work the translation code. Not just a
> translator (don't get me wrong, we need a bunch of translators as well
> of course). Someone who can basically take responsibility for fixing up
> the code to work with the translations. There are a lot of small things
> broken in it AFAIK, and they need to be fixed. Guillaume mentions a
> couple of them, I think there are a few more. And some sections just
> don't have translatability implemented (yet).
>
> There's no rocket science level code in the website, but said someone
> certainly needs to have a fairly good grasp of PHP and of coding in
> general. And most important - needs to have time to work on it.
>
> As usual, this is best done in an incremental fashion rather than
> dumping a mega-patch in there - it'll be much more likely to be reviewed
> and applied quickly then.
>
> But in the end, I think there is certainly interest in doing it. The
> reason the "current web team" is a bit slow on this is that we don't
> have what it takes to maintain such things once they are in right now -
> which is why we need someone to step up for the long term there. (IMO,
> of course, other members of the team may disagree on this, but I don't
> think they do)

Shame I didn't know 6 months ago that there are little chances to
have a translation accepted before certain things are adjusted in
the web infrastructure first : i had plenty of time last autumn and
winter. And instead of translating the already outdated pages and
receiving no feedback I could have digged into the PHP parts of
the site ...

Starting from 24 march i'm changing the job, so it's hard to predict
how much spare time shall I have. How many hours per week do you
think someone would need for taking care of the translation-related
issues of the website ?

Perhaps it would be useful to have the things that need to be fixed
added on Trac ?

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Adrian Maier