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. 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.