Localization

[KovalevArtem]

It is sad that the service is only in English - I propose to translate.
I am ready to help in the translation into Russian.
(For example, you can use Weblate, Crowdin, or any other service. Free for open source projects.)

[pierotofy]

Agree. It's not just a matter of translating though, the code needs to be modified to support localization (via po files or similar). We'd welcome efforts toward that (open a pull request).

[KovalevArtem]

There is a person from Weblate who can help with the integration of their service ...
@orangesunny

[comradekingu]

+1 for Weblate https://weblate.org/en/hosting/ with documentation available on docs.weblate.org/. Crowdin isn't gratis for libre software, and is closed source.

[KovalevArtem]

https://twitter.com/danbjoseph/status/1288064483106213891
It is a pity that the choice fell on Transifex. It's much more convenient to use Weblate...

[pierotofy]

It wouldn't have been my choice either, but I appreciate that somebody has picked up the initiative to translate the docs!

[comradekingu]

Transifex is primarily a exploitation and tracking platform.
As per usual with projects that have a CoC, the hypocrisy starts at line one.

As contributors and maintainers, we pledge to respect all people who contribute …

[pierotofy]

@comradekingu perhaps you could help us setup a localization effort in weblate.

[comradekingu]

Weblate has just the thing called "Hosted" for that sort of thing, and it is actually gratis for libre software.
https://hosted.weblate.org/hosting/ :)

[pierotofy]

I've forwarded a request to translate WebODM via their FOSS hosted plan.

[danbjoseph]

there was a volunteer who was actively translating the ODM documentation (repo / website) by manually editing .po files like this one. managing that process, especially when adding more languages and editing the source text, was going to be a nightmare. sphinx-doc is being used to build the ODM docs and they conveniently describe how to push/pull translations to/from transifex. i didn't know about weblate. this issue wasn't on the ODM docs repo so i didn't see it when i quickly created a process to manage the docs translation. now that i've heard about it, i'm interested in seeing how weblate might be incorporated. probably going to take some time though. links to applicable examples or detailed descriptions of how weblate would be integrated with the ODM docs would be welcome.

the ODM ecosystem includes a number of other pieces including the ODM software itself and WebODM. i'm sure there are translation needs for those as well and contributions would be welcome for setting those up.

[KovalevArtem]

@orangesunny Need help!

[orangesunny]

Hi all, we will be happy to host ODM on Hosted Weblate. Let’s solve some obstacles to do it!

1. I received a request for hosting WebODM from @pierotofy , mentioning .po, but only contains nested JSONs so far

2. @danbjoseph You can check how Weblate is familiar with Sphinx docs while reading Weblate of Godot Engine docs, both being translated by the community in Weblate.

It is not hard to set up, we only need to know that there are properly set up localization files in ODM repo and which one you want to translate... Or I can set up your project and leave the components on you. What do you prefer?

[pierotofy]

For WebODM, we don't have the .po files yet (we're still working to export them). I can let you know once we do?

It would be awesome to have hosting through Weblate.