Re: quality assurance for translations via hosted.weblate (was: debian-edu-doc: Tamil translations)

[ Frans Spiesschaert, 2025-01-21 ]
> Currently, debian-edu-doc does not have any explicit quality control 
> in place at hosted.weblate. Since anyone who wants to contribute to 
> a translation can freely do so, one could argue that this installs some 
> implicit quality checking: existing translations can be reviewed by 
> peer translators and improved by them. One can argue in favor of the 
> current situation by stating: better an imperfect translation than no 
> translation at all.

At least a formal quality control is possible:

Before committing a new (or an updated) PO file for language xy to the 
git master branch, running 'LINGUA=xy make html pdf' should show no 
issues; for details see e.g.
https://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/debian-edu-doc/debian-edu-doc-en/README.debian-edu-bookworm-manual-translations.gz

That said, recent 'make' requires a fixed Makefile.common, see MR:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-doc/-/merge_requests/5

Wolfgang

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