News from DDTSS: March 2024

Thomas Vincent <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Apr 2024 00:27:30 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hello i18n list!

Here are some news from DDTSS since last month. Note that the 1-month 
interval is pure coincidence, but who knows, maybe I'll send regular 
updates now. :)

Below are some of the cool things that happened since last month.


One new language handled by DDTSS
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On the #ddtp IRC channel, Maytham Alsudany requested Arabic to be added 
to the list of languages handled by DDTSS.
Welcome to the 'ar' team and congrats for your first completed 
description translation! Only… a few more to go! :D


Code contributors can run DDTSS locally
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Contributors can now run DDTSS locally and test their changes live. A 
set of [instructions] is now provided to have your very own DDTSS.
Hopefully this will motivate more people to contribute and will make 
their life easier. At least it made mine easier, so that's a win, if you 
ask me. :)

[instructions] 
https://salsa.debian.org/l10n-team/ddtp/-/blob/master/documentation/run-locally.adoc

More ideas to work on, add your own!
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In my last message, I asked for feedback to make DDTSS better. I 
received really good answers and put all those great ideas in our [issue 
tracker] in Salsa.
Good ideas are always welcome, so do not hesitate to open issues to 
share them with us!

[issue tracker] https://salsa.debian.org/l10n-team/ddtp/-/issues


You can now unfetch descriptions
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Speaking about good ideas, Daniele Forsi suggested to add the ability to 
'unfetch' descriptions when we know it won't be translated. For 
instance, if it was fetched/requeued by mistake, or if it will change 
very soon because we opened a bug report to fix it.
As of today, you can now do so. A new 'Unfetch' button appeared in the 
translation pages.


Under the hood
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This section is for changes that are not as important nor user-facing, 
but that I'm still super excited about.

The daily update script is a bit faster
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DDTSS runs its update script daily. This script takes a few hours to 
complete because it has a lot of packages, architectures, releases, and 
languages to process, and it makes the whole DDTSS very slow.
Thanks to changes submitted by Vofka Lu, we made our first dent in this 
super long processing time, cutting out roughly 45 minutes.

Ongoing refactoring
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Some changes are happening to clearly separate the parts that process 
data from the parts that display that data and create the web pages.
This is an important step to enable people to make much needed graphical 
changes without touching Perl code.


What's next?
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With the ongoing tasks and the ones listed on Salsa, we have plenty 
enough to keep ourselves busy for a while. Moreover, exciting topics are 
being worked on, but I won't say more to not jinx it. :)
You can always visit our issue tracker and open merge requests if you 
want a sneak peak of what is being prepared.


See you next time!
Thomas
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