+1 We need improve the final pieces to get the localization done.
Kalpa and I did part of the work in the activity itself, the missing part is the pootle stuff. Gonzalo On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Chris Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > We still need a lot of L10n activity to get it fully ready for wide > use in Sugar Deployments in non-English countries. > > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/help_content/ > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Iain Brown Douglas > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Help 17 is at a point close to release, but in some essential ways, is, as >> yet, unfinished. >> >> It is largely updated in content, but there is still some very important >> changes that have not been crossed off the list on this >> page:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh/0.98 >> >> Help 17 is already a nearly complete set of Sugar 1.00 documentation. >> >> I came to the project very recently, Gonzalo Odiard has spent more time >> supporting me to learn the process, than I have so far contributed. >> >> This will be an inadequate description, which is why I write. Gonzalo >> has modified the source of Activity Help, so that the version of Help in >> the link below includes a self-installing, fully user editable form of >> Help. Please test if you can. I tested it in sugar-build and SoaS. It works >> nicely. >> >> *To Get this Activity* >> ---------------------- >> >> Right now if you do: >> >> git clone [email protected]:help/mainline.git >> >> you will get the help activity _with_ the sources included. >> >> You can install it in your development environment doing: >> >> cd mainline >> >> ./setup.py dev >> >> If you have the Activity Help already installed, uninstall it first. >> >> Now you can modify any .rst file in /mainline/source directory or the >> images in the /mainline/images directory, >> >> and to create the html files, you only need do: >> >> >> make html >> >> * In Sugar >> You don’t need to restart the activity to see the changes, can do click >> with the secondary button, and select reload. >> >> >> * In any other Linux environment >> The output of make html is in /mainline/html, and is opened by opening >> index.html in a browser, it is easy to see the changes as you work. >> >> >> * Features >> Help already allows internationalisation of the content. >> >> *Next steps* >> ------------ >> >> I think this is a really good way of producing documentation in the field. >> >> But it has taken me three weeks to get to the point where I can contribute! >> On my hard drive, I have a variant of the above, that I would like to >> sell to you as "Help Doers Kit". >> >> *Help Doers Kit* >> ---------------- >> >> I replaced the "regular" index, with one containing "Help Doers Kit", >> which is about 4 pages I have written, containing: >> >> all I know about How To write and contribute to Activity Help >> an improving version of the content of this e-mail >> a sandbox. >> I have already used it to start to create some New-to-Sugar, pages which >> I hope to submit in due course. >> >> The Help Doers Kit allows someone with no coding experience, >> * to practice on the software, >> * to start to write documentation from scratch, >> * to write self-help pages, which remain in the users copy of Help, >> * to edit existing Help pages, and have them patched into the next >> Help Activity, >> * to develop the Help Doers Kit itself, >> * to have a common low-tech platform for collaboration, >> * to develop the Help Activity's look, feel, and features, >> * to, potentially, write attractive documentation available to >> distribute as .html web pages, or How_to_change_the_world.xo >> >> >> Would there be any market for Help Doers Kit, and what should I do next? >> >> Iain Brown Douglas >> aka inkyfingers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
