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L10n session @ Virtual FUDCon ‘07
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Jeff Spaleta is organizing a Virtual Fedora (Un)conference this week. When he asked me if I’d like to have a session on L10n and Transifex, without a second thought I put up my name on the schedule.
I gave a brief presentation of the Fedora Localization Project, talked a bit about the work we’ve been doing in the last months in streamlining our processes, a description of the tools we’re using, and gave a high-level view of Transifex aimed towards developers/maintainers.
Now I’m just going to dump some highlight quotes, a link to the IRC log, and my presentation notes. Thanks to everyone who participated and listened. :-)
Quotes
With 2000 translators, we need systems to easily manage the accounts — we already have one in the Fedora space, the Fedora Account System
I believe [Transifex] is a great opportunity for everyone, because it shows what can be achieved if we build bridges between teams and projects.
glezosHaving a single Transifex instance allows all the projects to pool translators, instead of having to recruit them directly.
ivazquezAs a frontend to normal translation tools, I think Transifex would be flexible and work well with projects’ existing translation workflow.
ricky[Transifex] vastly improves the lives of both translators and upstream projects in a way that grows the entire pie for everyone.
blizzardIRC log
The full IRC log can be found at: http://glezos.fedorapeople.org/fudcon07/l10n.log.html.
Presentation Notes
- History
- Traditionally i18n.redhat.com
- Developers need access to non-CVS repos — Fedora Infrastructure supports these
- Better tools to handle the community and translations (collaborative management)
- Need mailing lists, also per-group
- Translations: Do more stuff, easier
- Organizational
- String freezes (important for developers!)
- Encourage everyone working in a language team
- Each team having one maintainer (contact point)
- Regular meetings
- Future?
- Tools
- New, cross-VCS website
- Moved modules over to FI
- Bugzilla component (bug reports sent to FLP instead of developers)
- Commits list (l10n-commits group)
- Own repo to host project-specific resources
- Organizational
- Transifex
- Upstream, upstream, upstream!
- Spread in 3 steps: Integrate Fedora’s VCSs, friendly projects, upstream communities
- Developers: VCS of choice
- Translators: Translate anything, no worries about access
- Q & A
- History
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midnight, Δευτέρα 13 Αυγούστου 2007
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Yeah!
It was a great presentation.
Congratulation, Dimitris.