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.; Say "hello" to other translators from your region. Their details are listed here: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/translators.csv
Get Subversion access: Before updating files, you need commit access to our Subversion repository, described here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Subversion
check out the doc-directory from svn

svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/
svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/en/presentations/OSGeoLive4_0Taster

Only if you want to compile with sphinx in your locale environment, you need to get check out all trunk-directory from svn:

svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/

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

# edit translators.csv
# please add your Language, i18n code, Name, Country, Email, and Osgeo_id to the list,
# separated by comma.
#  - Order alphabetically by language, then by first name
#  - remove punctuation from email addresses to stop harvesting for junk mail

This is so that we can credit you in releases and other translators can find you: doc/translators.csv

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:

In the status worksheet find a document with status of "en Status"="..._final" or "...final_dated". Start with docs allocated the highest priority first (priority=1 in worksheet). See also the gross % complete.
Set the "status" for the document to "draft" while you edit it and add your user-id to the "translated-by" column.
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

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

svn commit -m "Translated docX.rst to Italian" docX.rst

Once complete change status="complete"
Someone else should then review the document, change status to "reviewed" and add their user-id to the "reviewed-by" column.

Adding new languages

Make sure you edit the list in:

doc/Makefile
doc/themes/overview/page.html
doc/index.rst

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)
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 SVN tree. All .rst files contain both translated and untranslated strings.
- svn commit

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

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