L10N Move to Weblate/Objective: hosting projects

Future migration plan
This page is a work-in-progress content about L10N Move to Weblate

Context

The Fedora Localization project has a few groups in https://fedora.zanata.org:

• Upstream project, organized in two categories
  • main Following Fedora development cycle
  • upstream Not following Fedora development cycle
• Fedora Project specific content:
  • web Fedora Websites
  • docs Fedora Documentation (currently disabled, but new l10n support is work-in-progress)

In addition, we have two groups aiming to help prioritization:

• Priority Packages List of priority packages, documentation and websites for the upcoming Fedora release
• rhel Branches for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Current processes

• Any Fedora contributor can come an create a new translation project.
• Inside Zanata, documents for a project are grouped into versions. For simple projects, it is typical to create a single version named 'master'. Other projects use workflows in which there is a version under active development, and one or more versions that are being maintained in a stable state with only some minor changes. Grouping these related versions under the same project allows for easier reuse of translations between versions. See doc for details.
• Multiple files format are theoretically supported by Zanata, but only gettext format really matter.
  • SELECT contentType, count(id) FROM hdocument GROUP BY contentType, shows 12702 application/x-gettext and 137 text/plain.
  • Default file type by project: File 12, Gettext 80, NULL 23, Podir 5, Properties 2, Xliff 1, Xml 1

Strengths:

1. Upstream project are autonomous and don't require anyone from l10n team to create/push or pull translation

Weaknesses:

1. nobody get noticed when a new project, version or document is created

Risks:

1. Zanata packages may not be available anymore for project to push/pull content https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/zanata-platform/builds/

Opportunities:

1. ...

User stories

File formats:

Description	Reasons, if required	Priority
As a project maintainer, I want to be able to push/pull translation files with the following formats : po	n/a	MVP

Interaction:

Description	Reasons, if required	Priority
As a project maintainer, I want to have a direct connection between the translation platform and my project repository	Make sure there is no delay.	TBD
As a project maintainer, I want to have a manual connection between the translation platform and my project repository	Pull/push mecanism as we currently have with Zanata.	MVP
As a ‘’’???’’’, I want to be able to interact with the translation platform using an API.		TBD

Quality checks:

Description	Reasons, if required	Priority
As a project maintainer, I can set/unset some technical checks.	programming langage checks	TBD