Proposal for translation tool

[ilyaspiridonov]

Please consider using GitLocalize to manage translations.
It's free, supports .md and syncs with GitHub directly.

[svmelton]

Thanks—I'll let our Spanish and French Managing Editors take a look.

[mdlincoln]

jumping in to note that this would not handle the particular way that we do language snippets, so it couldn't handle all our translation needs.

However, I would be interested to get feedback on how it works for translating a markdown file in ph-submissions. If the @programminghistorian/french-team or @programminghistorian/spanish-team have a specific lesson they'd like to experiment with, let the @programminghistorian/technical-team team know and we could try it out as an option.

[arojascastro]

Interesting! I think we should experiment with it. I am planning to translate one lesson in the first semester of 2020 and I could use it. But feel free to experiment with this tool as well in parallel!

[jenniferisasi]

I watched their video and was wondering that @mdlincoln, it didn't look to me like the system we use in the website/jekyll folder.

For what you [I see @arojascastro too] suggest, I see it useful to do a review on EN | ES versions (in my case) but I would personally not use it to do the translation of a lesson itself - that would mean there is a ticket open while in-progress but as of now we only accept completed translations. Makes sense?

[mdlincoln]

Actually, because this involves a github integration directly onto our repositories, we really should pick just 1 lesson to start with.

[mdlincoln]

But, as @jenniferisasi notes, only if you think it'd actually be usefuul to try out. There's no reason we have to use it.

[arojascastro]

I did not watch any video or read the documentation, so I do not know if it is really useful! Sorry!

[mdlincoln]

Well hey, maybe I'll try setting up a little demo in the ph-submissions repo on some sample lessons (I'll make new temporary directories so it won't interfere with actual ongoing lessons) and you call can take a look before we try using it for a "real" lesson.

[mdlincoln]

Hi @programminghistorian/french-team and @programminghistorian/spanish-team I'm trying to assess the number of hours I spend on PH stuff, and this is probably going to be beyond my capacity to work on right now. If there is strong interest from your teams, we can see if another @programminghistorian/technical-team member is able to take point - otherwise I may put this issue into the "new features backlog". Please respond on this ticket if you feel very strongly about trying this out.

[arojascastro]

Thanks @mdlincoln - I would say is not a priority or requirement, but desirable... :)