Bring Drupal 8 to all in their native languages

SebCorbinGábor Hojtsy

Drupal.org session track

First of all...

The main purpose of this talk: translating the interface of Drupal and its modules.

➔ Present the current infrastructure/process

➔ Where we are for D8 support➔ Make the work of the translators

easier, and more recognized

Localization aka l10nThis is about translating the content of your Drupal site. Don’t worry, if you mixed up the subjects, this presentation may still be useful ;)

Multilingual will happen at 14:15 today, room 117

Internationalization aka i18n

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How does it work?

It all started with the t() function

These source strings are extracted from Drupal and its modules using Potx and are grouped into *.po source files.

$text = t("@name's blog", array('@name' => format_username($account)), array('context' => 'Verb')

);

Then translate as any open source project does...

These .po source files can be translated with any Translation editor (e.g. POEdit or https://localise.biz/free/poeditor) and imported back in your Drupal site to be stored in locale_sources and locale_target tables.

Another option is to use the l10n_client module to directly edit the translations on your site.

But we are a community, so we have localize.d.o

This site executes Potx on every release that is made on Drupal.org, and offers a tool far more performant and flexible than a single editor:

● cross releases translations● cross projects translations● multiple translation groups handling● translations reviews● automatic downloads of translation on your site using the l10n_update

module or Drupal 8 core (yay!)

You and your site

drupal.orglocalize.drupal.org

l10n_server connector

ftp.drupal.org

releases.tsv

l10n_packager

l10n_update or D8 core

.po files

The community

potxl10n_community

+l10n_groups (og)

l10n_client

l10n_remote

l10n_client

.po files

Great news!

Issue created 01-02-2012

localize.drupal.org is now D7-powered!

Site ported 11-08-2015

Thanks a lot to Gabor Hojtsy, SebCorbin, dashoxa, droplet, hass, Balu Ertl, podarok, frederickjh, s_leu, laurentchardinThank also the Drupal Association: japerry, drumm, basic, opdavies

2nd great news!Drupal 8 core now ships with automatic

downloads of core and contrib translations (even during install)

Thanks to Gabor Hojtsy, herom, Sutharsan, miro_dietiker, ksenzee, duaelfr

Some numbers...

Current statistics■ 112 translation groups

■ 6040 contributors

■ 1 187 443 translations recorded

■ 593 431 strings to translate

■ 364 669 suggestions awaiting approval

■ 1 359 969 files scanned

Developer statistics■ 8 531 144 lines to match

file/line/type/project/release (1 237 MB)

■ 1 991 389 translated strings input by users

(suggestions or translations)

■ Overall database size: 6 GB

■ l10n_*-related tables : ~3 GB

Our current status

Drupal 8 compatibility is nearly done, 3 issues remaining:

2 criticals:

- Support for Drupal 8 shipped configuration translatables with

external dependencies (affects contrib)

- D8: TranslationWrapper class renamed to TranslatableString

A “minor”:

- Use a more sensible format for Yaml translation pattern

definition.

Potx

All good, now in Drupal 8 core.

The interface of Drupal 8 has been backported to a new 7.x-2.x

branch

l10_update

8.x-1.x : New UX based on Tour module

Main issues:

- Is far off in terms of D8 API

- Won’t highlight variable-based string (wut has fallback)

- Doesn’t actually save/send anything right now

Your help is needed!

l10_client

6.x-3.x: now discontinued, but has a lot of interesting remaining

issues that could get ported

7.x-1.x: now powering localize.d.o, can accept features requests

l10_server

How to improve?

On the Drupal site side, it’s gettings better (l10n_update), but:

■ Localization community needs more recognition

We need gamification by statistics, badges, ...

■ Infrastructure handling more and more strings

Need to archive old data, be able to identify old strings, improve search performance

■ Translation interface needs a revamp

Why not translate in apps like l10n_client?

■ The community aspects needs a push

Activity streams, glossary handling

An example: Transifex

■ Dead-simple interface (AJAX)

■ Fast, visual search

■ Suggestions, history, glossary,

comments on strings

■ Mass review, search & replace

■ Activity stream, announcements

Glossary

■ Currently an external French site

■ Votes on glossary suggestions

■ Exported via JSON

■ Displayed on localize.drupal.org

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AvuH8HfBxSx1SPmFIGs6Ue1hmDoVbMWKscWi_qY6_yE/edit#gid=0

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