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.

Say "hello" to other translators from your region. There 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

Credit yourself

As a first test to see subversion is working, add your name to the list of translators. This is so that we can credit you in releases and other translators can find you: doc/translators.csv

Status Sheet

We track status of all translations in this google docs spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlRFyY1XenjJdFRDbjFyWHg1MlNTRm10QXk0UWEzWlE&hl=en_GB&authkey=CPTB6uIE#gid=7

It contains some excel wizardry to check reported status of English docs, and entered document versions to report on status of translations. This is where you should look to determine which file you should translate next, and also which you should update after translating a document.

Update status sheet version numbers

To update the version numbers of documents, someone should follow the following process:

svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/extract_doc_versions.sh
bin/extract_doc_versions.sh > list.csv
ooffice list.csv

Cut and paste the contents into the second row of the worksheet "svnlist" in https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlRFyY1XenjJdFRDbjFyWHg1MlNTRm10QXk0UWEzWlE&hl=en_GB&authkey=CPTB6uIE#gid=7

Nightly build of documentation

http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/index.html

Translations

This is how it works:

1. 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)
2. Set the "status" for the document to "draft" while you edit it and add your user-id to the "translated-by" column.
3. 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)

svn copy doc/en/<doc>.rst doc/lang/<doc>.rst

1. translate the files from /doc/en and copy them to your language directory (keep the directory structure like it is in en)
2. Once complete change status="complete"
3. Someone else should then review the document, change status to "reviewed" and add their user-id to the "reviewed-by" column.

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.