Bego Mario Garde 11:59 am on August 10, 2016
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Notes from the Polyglots chat on August, 10th

LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ stats

Releases: 162 localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. 58 locales up to date. 11 locales behind by minor versions. 8 locales behind by one major version. 15 locales behind more than one major version. 62 locales have a site but never released. 8 locales don’t have a site.

Translations: 162 locales. 20 locales at 100%. 37 locales have more than 95%. 12 locales have more than 90%. 28 locales have more than 50%. 56 locales have less than 50%. 9 locales don’t have a WP project.

Our goal is to have 60 fully translated locales. If Marathi and Gujarathi get to 100% (ace work by Rahul Bansal (@rahul286) and team), this will give us two new locales at 100% for 4.6.

ToDo

  • See the locales that are 90%+ after the hard string freezeString freeze The term "string freeze" is used by the core team to mark the end of changes to the strings of an upcoming release. A string freeze also means that there will be no more strings added to the core project. Sometimes a string freeze has two phases a soft freeze and a hard freeze. A string freeze is announced on the Polyglots blog by the current release lead. and contact the GTEs to urge them to complete the translation and release for 4.6

WordPress 4.6 hard string freeze coming in tonight – update your SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. directories

Text stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. for the About page will be available for translation tonight. Petya (@petya) will pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” all GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale.’s tomorrow to remind them to complete missing translations. SVN repositories need to get prepared.

Dominik (@ocean90) has updated the handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/translating/packaging-localized-wordpress/automated-release-packages/

ToDo

  • Dominik/Petya to publish instruction guide for preparing the SVN directories for 4.6 automated release
  • GTEs to check their SVN repositories and ask for help on the P2p2 "p2" is the name of the theme that blogs at make.wordpress.org use (and o2 is the accompanying plugin). When asked to post something "on the p2" by a member of the Polyglots team, that usually means you're asked to post on the team blog https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/. if needed

Translating the WordPress 4.6 release video

While we still have a week to finish the translation for the release video, we already have 33 translations available (more than 4.5 had). If your subtitles don’t match with the voice, feel free to break subtitles and make them shorter. You don’t necessarily need to follow the original script sync. Petya will also tweet on http://twitter.com/TranslateWP to remind translators to contribute to the translation of the release video. Please feel free to retweet.

ToDo

  • Launch a dedicated campaign to add translations for popular languages we’re still missing – Chinese, Thai, Baltic languages to name a few – on Petya
  • Help spread the word on social media or if you know anyone who speaks those languages – everyone

New strings in the iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android apps – let’s help the teams

Both, Android and iOS App have new text strings and the developers have posted a request for translation

  • iOS – https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2016/08/04/hi-polyglots-we-just-finished-preparing-the-next/
  • Android – https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2016/08/03/merhaba-polyglots-5-7-development-branch-of-wordpress-for/

Automattic is trying to involve the community more in the projects’ translations and only supplement paid translations for missing strings after campaigning for community translations for the apps.

Cross locale PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after a request by the project author or by the contributors themselves. management

  • The Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. is mostly done with defining rules for Cross Locale PTE trials
  • Next on the list: create the infrastructure to add Cross Locale PTEs (currently PTEs are added manually per locale and adding one user to 160 locales is not feasable for the Polyglots leads, so we need the means to do that at once in the Global Network backend)
  • According to @akirk Automattic has development time planned to contribute to that infrastructure.
  • #meta-i18n chat about it to be scheduled about it after the 4.6 release

August documentation sprint – who’d like to get involved?

Petya (@petya) has published a post with details on the documentation sprint planned for August. Currently the handbook has a lot of old info which is misleading and we’re missing essential information which is causing a lot of us to repeat ourselves constantly on the P2 when helping people. Our goal is to restructure the handbook and add new pages before the end of the month.

To start withe the handbook, we used this Google Doc:
Polyglots Contributor Handbook

ToDo

  • If you’d like to grab a page to own, please ping @petya to add you to the spreadsheet.
  • Please comment under Petya’s post (https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2016/08/10/august-handbook-documentation-sprint-call-for-volunteers/), if you would like to get involved with documentation in general.

Open discussion

Topics that were traced briefly were how the polyglot team handles requests to import .po-files and how to deal with a backlog of waiting text strings.

A newer version of GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. allows the import of .po-files as waiting for approval, yet it hasn’t been updated in https://translate.wordpress.org yet due to a lack of resources.

@ocean90 is waiting for
this systems issue to be resolved

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