Localization team discussion issue

[sebasmagri]

During RustDay in Mexico City, erickt, brson and I discussed about the benefits of having a dedicated localization team in the project.

The goals of such a team would include:

• Orchestrate Rust content i18n
  • Documentation (partnering with -docs)
  • Videos (Amara)
  • Blog posts / Websites
• Coordinate efforts to bring/improve i18n/l10n tooling into the ecosystem
  • Cargo integration
  • rustdoc support?
  • mdBook support?
  • 1.0 i18n/l10n crates
• Evaluate feasibility and implement i18n/l10n into the core tools
  • Compiler error messages (LANG/LC_* compliant on *nix?)

What else should we consider? What examples from other communities and open source projects can we use?

[GuillaumeGomez]

A long time ago, I opened a PR about adding localization for rustc itself. It was way too early but might be worth being discussed again?

[sebasmagri]

@GuillaumeGomez Sure thing... the idea of this issue is to start gathering feedback and ideas to define goals for the l10n team. rustc is definitely one of the targets.

[skade]

I would also try to get a list of currently running translation efforts and get in touch with the people doing them.

[carols10cents]

Translation efforts for the book are listed in this appendix and they each have an issue labeled Translations.

[carols10cents]

Also this is the mdBook issue for multilingual support.

[spastorino]

I was talking with @sebasmagri and I think I'd focus on educational resources and the tooling ecosystem part for now.

[dvigneshwer]

We should also consider reaching out to the existing experienced Mozilla l10n community members for help, contributions, and guidance. They use a lot of cool tools like transifex etc.

[sebasmagri]

Thanks for the suggestion @vigneshwerd. We're definitely willing to get in touch with them for this initiative.

I would also like to gather some feedback from the Chinese community. cc @KiChjang @tennix, @wayslog, @3442853561, @zonyitoo

[KiChjang]

Also cc @KaiserY.

[KiChjang]

I believe the most up-to-date Chinese translation efforts are still in https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning/blob/master/zh_CN.md. In particular, I think RustPrimer is being used by quite a lot of people in the Chinese community to learn Rust.

@KaiserY has just told me that they've done translation of the Rust book 2nd edition up to chapter 19. More details in his repo: https://github.com/KaiserY/trpl-zh-cn.

[skade]

@sebasmagri Can #124 and #125 be folded into this?

[sebasmagri]

@skade yep, I think those issues should be part of this. Lets fold it and then we can reopen issues with the requirements well defined in the localisation repo.

[ariasuni]

Two issues where created a long time ago concerning localization crates: rust-lang/rfcs#822 and rust-lang/rust#14495. I would definitely want to contribute to discussion and code about this.

[sebasmagri]

cc @hngnaig for Vietnamese efforts. 👍