Re: Translating the web site

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 24 septembre 2020 03:25:56 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" 
<ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
>
>> As soon as we can host the translation files on a separate project on
>> savannah, we can get it running at translate.fedora-project.org
>
>Sounds good.  Do we need to host POT files on our side?  I naively
>though Weblate would host them.

No, weblate works with a git repository: it clones a repo and presents 
translation files to the users. Wher a file it translated, it commits it 
locally and remotely.

>
>A Savannah project would be a sledgehammer; what about having a
>sub-directory at guix.gnu.org with all the POT files?  All we’d need to
>do is add a couple of nginx ‘location’ blocks to the config in
>maintenance.git.

So, we really need a git repository. I guess it could be hosted on, say, 
git.guix.gnu.org :)

>
>> (it's a bit weird, but I think it's better than hosted.weblate.org
>> which uses some google stuff. If we prefer hosted, there's ~1 month
>> delay for them to consider an application).
>
>Who is “them” in this last sentence?  

hosted.weblate.org's admins. They try to make a bit of money from their 
project, so normally their service is paid, but they accept free software 
projects for free, but the application can take time.

>
>> Eventually it could be nice to have our own instance, but dividing
>the
>> translator community even further might not be a very good idea.
>
>Yeah.
>
>> To get the project, we need to clarify the license on the translation
>files, as we discussed before. How should we proceed on that?
>
>There was a question about copyright holders for translations; to me
>it’s clearly individual translators, and translations that indicate
>otherwise are probably the result of misconfiguration in ‘Makevars’
>and/or copy/paste.
>
>The PO files at <https://translationproject.org/domain/guix.html> and
><https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-packages.html> state:
>
>  This file is distributed under the same license as the guix package.
>
>which is perfect.
>
>Those at <https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-manual.html> have
>the same statement, but it should rather be the same license as the
>manual (GFDL).  Perhaps a ‘Makevars’ issue too?  Since there are a
>handful of translators involved, we can probably just contact them and
>change that sentence.
>
>Thoughts?

I agree, the robot should have taken care of making sure the list of authors is 
maintained in the po files, so we have a complete list from that.

>
>Ludo’.