Bug#926369: www.debian.org: gettextize the Social Contract

Hi Laura e.a.,

Op Thu, 4 Apr 2019 08:28:53 +0200 schreef Laura Arjona Reina:
>
> It would be nice to gettextize the Debian Social contract.
> The web page of the Debian Social Contract is considered upstream
> version for the package debian-doc, and the Debian flyers also produce a
> LaTeX-based version of it.
>
> We already have several translations in the wml format; if we gettextize
> the document, the same .po file/strings could be used for the 1.0 and
> the current version of the file, for the debian-doc-* packages, and for
> the debian-flyers project.
>
> I didn't look too much on how to do it but probably po4a-gettextize and
> po4a can help on this.

~$ po4a-gettextize --help-format

just taught me it supports both wml and DocBook XML.  It looks doable.

> If this works, we could use the same procedure to gettextize other
> foundation documents as the Debian Constitution, Diversity Statement,
> CoC, or other that shouldn't change much in time, and we'd like to show
> in different formats and languages in an easy way.

Excellent plan.  The Debian FAQ is another document which has translations, but
never got gettextize'd.  Otoh: I am not really sure about what would be best to
do with it; it very much shows its age and lack of maintenance :(

Anyway, yes, gettextizing the Social Contract would be a very useful thing to
do.

Bye,

Joost (biting his tongue and not committing himself to anything)