Live GIS Translate

This page describes how to translate documentation for the OSGeo-Live DVD.

Getting Started

Thanks for considering translating the OSGeo-Live documentation. To get started:

Introduce yourself.

Please join our email list at: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo, and send an email introducing yourself and your wish to help out. If you wish to start translating to a new language, let us know so that we can create a new status worksheet for you.

We moved from svn to git. So please read about the next steps here:

• Live_GIS_Disc#Git_migration

Credit yourself

As a first test to see subversion is working, add your name to the list of translators.

Status Sheet

• Documents ready to translate are marked "Final" in our Project Status Spreadsheet.
• Check the Translation Status to find files that need translation, or need updating. Note that the hyperlink for each translated doc will take you to a page showing the differences in the English doc since last translation. (This document is updated hourly by extracting document version from subversion).

Nightly documentation builds

• http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/
  • Latest documentation build can be found in the docs/ dir.
  • Please have a look at and squash any problems which show up in the error log, which can be found in the logs/ dir.

Translations

This is how it works:

• Find documents that have a "Final" status in our Project Status sheet and which are not translated or outdated in the Translation Status.
• If this is a new translated document, use subversion to copy the English version of the document to new language directory. (This retains our subversion history, while svn add does not)

svn copy doc/en/<doc>.rst doc/lang/<doc>.rst (old version with svn)
cp en/<doc>.rst doc/lang/<doc>.rst

• add your name as translator of the document: add :Translator: Your_name at the top of document near :Reviewer: or Author
• translate the document and then commit back to subversion

git add docX.rst
git commit -m "Translated docX.rst to Italian" docX.rst
git push origin master

• Once complete change status="complete"

Adding new languages

Make sure you edit the list in:

• doc/Makefile
• doc/themes/overview/page.html
• doc/index.template
• bin/lang_stats.sh

Setup the dir structure:

LCODE=pt

cd doc/
mkdir $LCODE
cd $LCODE
mkdir overview/ quickstart/ standards/
cd ..
git add $LCODE
git commit -m 'new directory' $LCODE
git push origin master

Remember that when `doc/Makefile` changes the hash needs to be updated; contact Hamish.

Glossary

At this page you can find a glossary of OSGeo-Live documentation related terms, please fell free to add new terms.

Use OmegaT for the translations

• there is a nice tool to generate the translations http://www.omegat.org/ (here you find a good documentation)
• To install the tool on a Ubuntu or Debian system (such as the live disc) run:

sudo apt-get install omegat

• add the ending rst to be supported by OmegaT
  • configure: Options → file filter → textfiles → add → add *.rst

• Create a new project:
  • Select a folder where OmegaT can write its files
  • Select your destination language, point Source Files directory to doc/en, and Translated Files directory to doc/$your-language-code. The two middle options can stay where they are in subfolders of OmegaT project folder.
  • Translate something.
  • Write files: Project → Create Translated Documents will populate doc/$your-language into git tree. All .rst files contain both translated and untranslated strings.
  • git commit
  • git push origin master

• Work on an already started translation:
  • TO BE DONE - is OmegaT able to handle contents under version control? Seems not, for me.

Move to Transifex

There is the plan to move the translation to Transifex. The documentation/discussion can be found here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Live_GIS_Translate