Re: Translating the web site

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> As soon as we can host the translation files on a separate project on
> savannah, we can get it running at translate.fedora-project.org

Sounds good.  Do we need to host POT files on our side?  I naively
though Weblate would host them.

A Savannah project would be a sledgehammer; what about having a
sub-directory at guix.gnu.org with all the POT files?  All we’d need to
do is add a couple of nginx ‘location’ blocks to the config in
maintenance.git.

> (it's a bit weird, but I think it's better than hosted.weblate.org
> which uses some google stuff. If we prefer hosted, there's ~1 month
> delay for them to consider an application).

Who is “them” in this last sentence?  

> Eventually it could be nice to have our own instance, but dividing the
> translator community even further might not be a very good idea.

Yeah.

> To get the project, we need to clarify the license on the translation files, 
> as we discussed before. How should we proceed on that?

There was a question about copyright holders for translations; to me
it’s clearly individual translators, and translations that indicate
otherwise are probably the result of misconfiguration in ‘Makevars’
and/or copy/paste.

The PO files at <https://translationproject.org/domain/guix.html> and
<https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-packages.html> state:

  This file is distributed under the same license as the guix package.

which is perfect.

Those at <https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-manual.html> have
the same statement, but it should rather be the same license as the
manual (GFDL).  Perhaps a ‘Makevars’ issue too?  Since there are a
handful of translators involved, we can probably just contact them and
change that sentence.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.