Re: Better info about tools for (new) translators

Hi Thomas,

Em 31/07/2022 10:17, Thomas Lange escreveu:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just found the "Linux Mint Translation Guide", and was happy to
> learn that there are graphical tools available for editing po files.
> 
> Then I search in our web pages, if we also tell our (new) translators,
> that these tool exists.
> 
> We have some old news from 2008 which mentions poedit and virtaal.
> Then I found this wml file which lists some other tools:
> english/international/dutch/index.wml
> 
> But where do I find this on the Debian web pages? It's not that easy.
> Go to https://www.debian.org/international/, click on Dutch (this is
> not dutch in lowercase) and read until the end of the page. If you
> click on "project website" you will come to the page which has the
> nice list of po editor tools. Even those two pages are written in
> english, the audience are the dutch translators.
> Why is this info not on the main (english) page for translators?

Nice tip, thanks.
In portuguese brazilian teamm, some folks use POEdit and OmegaT.

> Another things I've recently learned at DebConf that some
> documentation manage their translations in a web based service for
> e.g. https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/
> BTW, on our web pages we only link in a chinese document to this
> weblate project. Oh, a french page also hase some info about this.
> 
> We should point all new translators (which may be scary because of git,
> wml,..) to this easy way of helping our project with translations.

This week we created a project in weblate to translate apt and dpkg po 
files, anf test this tool.

Best regards,