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[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi,

[Adding debian-doc at lists.debian.org to Cc]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 08:15:37AM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> El 3 de abril de 2019 5:03:18 CEST, "Joost van Baal-Ilić"
> <joostvb-debian-flyers-devel at mdcc.cx> escribió:
> >On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 12:14:06AM +0200, Alban Vidal wrote:
> >> Le 02/04/2019 à 11:07, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit :

[context: this is about https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-flyers ]

> >> >> We can also call the l10n teams to create the social contract + DFSG.
> >> >> They already translated in most languages; we just need a layout to the
> >> >> .tex format.
> >> >
> >> > We don't have po-infrastructure yet.  Would be nice if we had (would
> >> > it?).  But indeed, social contract now has english, french and italian
> >> > in our repo while there is
> >> >
> >> >  عربية (Arabiya)
> >> >  Български (Bəlgarski)
> >> >  català
<snip>
> >> >  svenska
> >> >  Tiếng Việt
> >> >  Türkçe
> >> >  українська (ukrajins'ka)
> >> >  中文(简)
> >> >  中文(HK)
> >> >  中文(繁) 
> >> >
> >> > at https://www.debian.org/social_contract .
> >> >
> >> > Hrm....
> >> >
> >> > Idealy we would not keep translations in 2 places in git.
> >
> >Just to be more clear: The 2-places-in-git issue is only for the social
> >contract/dfsg-flyer, in
> >salsa.debian.org:debian/debian-flyers/social_contract/
> 
> I think it would be nice that we gettextize the web source. This could be
> benefit for:
> 
> * the own Debian website
> * the package doc-debian* (it uses the ww.debian.org pages as upstream/source)
> * the flyers

That would be truly awesome indeed!

Currently, doc-debian is in very bad shape.  It has not been migrated to salsa
yet, I spend some time on converting the dump of the svn/alioth repo to git;
didn't succeed yet.  See https://bugs.debian.org/922929 for some details.  It
indeed fetches stuff from our website and uses that as source.

> >.  The po-issue is especially for the general debian flyer, in
> >salsa.debian.org:debian/debian-flyers/english.tex
> >
> >> > Maybe po could
> >> > help, not quite sure yet what's the best course of action here...
> >> >
> >> Flyers with .po format is a very good idea, but for the moment I don't
> >> know how convert the current .tex files to use existing .po files.
> >> 
> >> For the future flyers updates (or new releases / new translated
> >> language), the translation will be faster ready, and the updates more
> >> easy (I think).
> >
> >I also _think_ that; and I also don't know yet how to do such a
> >conversion.  I
> >_think_ that once we have .po files, we can hook up with existing
> >popular
> >translators infrastructure.
> >
> >> If you want I can look for that.
> >
> >That would be great.  Even if it turns out that it would be too much
> >work /
> >overkill, that'd be useful to know.
> >
> 
> I'll also have a look. We have the DebConf sponsorship brochure in LaTeX with
> .po support already, it shouldn't be difficult.

Great.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

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