Hi Scott,
On 23.09.19 16:15, Scott via openwrt-devel wrote:
First and foremost, as a user of OpenWrt and LuCI by way of TurrisOS thanks for
everyone who has contributed to OpenWrt. As someone who's seeking to give back
to the project via localization I noticed that while OpenWrt has relatively
straightforward documentation on contributing localization
(https://github.com/openwrt/luci/wiki/i18n), the process could be streamlined a
great deal more. In particular by using Weblate thus making easier it for those
who don't know Git and providing significant quality of life improvements even
for those who do know Git. Those who want to do offline localization could
continue to do so w/o issue.
For those who aren't familiar with localization, Weblate is basically a web
based tool that allows to contribute by simply entering in a localized string
and hitting 'suggest' rather than having to Git clone, download an offline
client like Lokalize, and then make a PR. There's also a good number of nice
things to improve localization. It's easy to visually see what languages need
localization work, you can be notified when there's new strings or a few other
trigger events, and you can utilize not only the 'translation memory' of
OpenWrt itself, but other FOSS such as related routing projects like Foris. The
great thing is that while you can self host your own Weblate server, because
OpenWrt is FOSS, the folk behind Weblate would likely offer free hosting given
their Gratis for libre projects pricing. To better see what I'm talking about
in action please check out:https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/
I think that's a good idea! As it doesn't need to be directly integrated
in any existing workflow nor requires privileges on any Git, it's
basically just a fancy front-end with translation suggestions for .po
files right?
Out of curiosity I requested a libre account for a quick evaluation, if
anyone is in serious doubt on evaluation it I'll instantly cancel the
request. However I think this is in line with
https://openwrt.org/meetings/hamburg2019/start#luci_translations
As a secondary note in what sounds like was written in late 2016, there were
private discussions about public crowdfunding to help pay for servers
(https://openwrt.org/infrastructure). Talking with tmomas on the forums it
sounds like the current bottleneck is people power. Any surplus donations
beyond infrastructure could be used to pay for part or full time development or
for bounties. Between the LiberaPay and OpenCollective, OpenCollective may be
preferable because it is designed to allow both reoccurring and one off
donations.
Also a nice idea, I heard a couple of times people want to donate but
there is no convenient way to do so. Having some funding for
rpcd-doc-writing or a simplified web interface would be great!
Maybe jow can come up with a comment on this, I remember there were some
issues on how to manage the money in an organizational way...
Best,
Paul
_______________________________________________
openwrt-devel mailing list
openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org
https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
