Mechanism to keep translations up-to-date

[josephwright]

We likely need to work out how translations are updated following 'core' text changes. For example, I've just merged #74 and this will need to be reflected in the translation pages. I'm not sure what mechanisms make sense: ideas welcome!

[davidcarlisle]

It is not so hard for the maintainer of a fork to see a diff from all the commits in en since the fork was last synced and so update translations if necessary. @joulev did that a couple of times in vi

What is harder is some systematic way for us to centrally to track where each language is relative to changes in the English, since that information is most easily generated at the individual fork sites unless I missed a trick somewhere.

[josephwright]

Well quite: I was wondering more about saying that translators should be on the mailing list, or opening an issue for each update and pining all of the translators, or ...

[joulev]

It is not so hard for the maintainer of a fork to see a diff from all the commits in en since the fork was last synced and so update translations if necessary. @joulev did that a couple of times in vi

@davidcarlisle It does require that the translator has to be a GitHub active user and has to be watching this repo though.

[davidcarlisle]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 17:35, Vu Van Dung ***@***.***> wrote: It is not so hard for the maintainer of a fork to see a diff from all the commits in en since the fork was last synced and so update translations if necessary. @joulev <https://github.com/joulev> did that a couple of times in vi @davidcarlisle <https://github.com/davidcarlisle> It does require that the translator has to be a GitHub active user and has to be watching this repo though.

yes but similarly I fear asking translators to be on a mailing list and get told of all future edits on each commit may be too much what I was wondering was if we could periodically query the git repository to generate for each language a diff of the english pages since the language directory was last updated.

[davidcarlisle]

What we have done for the last few "major" changes that add new text is to add a comment in a PR or issue that pings the main translators. Hopefully that means they get an email alert just rarely and without having to watch the repository or be on a mailimg list. Hopefully that proves to be sufficient, eg

New text on \linewidth #129 (comment)
PR to add settings page: #163 (comment)

[davidcarlisle]

Just a note here that Italian got added yesterday (Thanks @Gordon-72 !).

I am aware everyone is a volunteer but a reminder that we still welcome additional translations. I am adding a ping list of known started translations that have not been added yet in case their status has been changed and they are ready but got missed here.

gr @kokkonisd
ja @wtsnjp
kr @fermat39
lt @valius-kria
tr @erdaldogan
zh @stone-zeng