[Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

[Tony Anderson]

Hi Chris

Currently there are two text fields per activity in ASLO: Summary and 
Description.
This gets a bit more complicated since these text fields edited by the 
developer in github.

Perhaps this might work. Have a po directory in the activities/ 
directory of the bundle. When the activity page is selected Django can 
select the summary string from the appropriate po and send it to the 
html template. This method would work for both summary and description. 
With the pootle default to display the POT string, no harm can be done.

Sam Cantaro mentioned using webhooks to notify ASLO when a new activity 
version has been released. Perhaps such a hook could be used to notify 
you of the need to review localization for the activity and another hook 
to notify ASLO to update the bundle to integrate the localization.

Tony

On 05/19/2017 10:08 AM, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>> On 05/19/2017 09:24 AM, Chris Leonard wrote:
>> The more difficult question is how to localize the summary and description
>> of the individual activities. At present, it appears we don't attempt to
>> localize this information.
> The first thought that pops into my mind is the very brief Activity
> description that is in the activity.info file and is frequently, but
> not always captured in the PO file for localization.  With that as
> background, making changes to activity,info format to include a richer
> description seems feasible as does doing a better job of tooling the
> i18n so that these activity.info fields are more consistently captured
> in the PO files.  Having ASLO parse the activity.info file of the
> hosted packages relevant PO file seems a reasonable approach that
> would mean that ASLO doesn't have to have separately maintained
> knowledge of the Activities being hosted, it justs picks it up from
> the upload of the package itself.  . Just a thought.
>
> cjl
> .
>