Reading some IRC backlog and an incoming review with a new suggestion on
how to do translations in the project, I decided to write some problems
our current scripts have, together with questions and proposals. With
the growing big tent and the automatic way to setup translations, we get
more repos requesting translations - and more support requests.
Please read the description below and tell me what's wrong,what's
missing, where you disagree - and how to move forward.
thanks,
Andreas
Setting up translations for new projects currently has the following
challenges:
a) For "python" repositories, we expect that the locale file is
located at $repo/locale/$repo.pot - without any change possible.
This leads to python-novaclient/locale/python-novaclient.pot and
oslo.log/locale/oslo.log.i18n - in both cases the python module has
a different name, novaclient and oslo_log.
Currently everybody makes it wrong and we have to help them using
the proper file names.
Proposal:
* Simplify location to use $modulename/locale/$modulename
Can we determine modulename easily from the name in setup.cfg like
in jenkins/scripts/pypi-extract-name.py?
b) For dashboard repos, there's no common entry point yet and some are
even setup like "python" repositories (designate-dashboard).
There's also no naming pattern on how to name files and everybody
does it differently.
Currently the django component is called djangjo.pot, the
javascript one djangojs.pot.
Question: Do we really need to do it this way or can we change it?
We should have a single entrypoint for projects and a standard way
to call them.
Proposal: Define standard tox environement "extractmessages", it
places translation files in (if django/djangojs are really the best
names, I prefer to change them):
* $modulename/locale/django.pot
* $modulename/locale/djangojs.pot
Can we determine modulename easily from the name in setup.cfg like
in jenkins/scripts/pypi-extract-name.py? At least
django_openstack_auth is setup differently..
c) Projects currently need to add the pot file initially, our scripts
fail if the directory does not exist.
Proposal: Make scripts robust so that they work even without
initial pot file.
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