2023-03-02 Kickoff & Sync

Attendees: @Michelle Philbrick @Brian Smith @Omar Al-Ithawi @shadinaif @Sarina Canelake

Reminder of milestones

Milestone 1: Repository Conformation

Deliverables: 

  • All repositories with user-facing strings are fully internationalized;

  • All repositories with user-facing strings have their strings in the openedx-translations repository

 

Milestone 2: Translations Infrastructure Implementation & Integration

Deliverables:

  • Implementation of the Translations system as specified above:

    • All strings across all repositories are extracted and pushed to Transifex;

    • All translated strings for any language can be pulled from Transifex and added to an instance at build time;

    • Support for the needs of named releases;

    • Full adherence to modern testing standards.

  • Technical documentation pertaining to the specifics of the Translations infrastructure implementation, including:

    • Full documentation of the Translation system, in READMEs, as well as ADRs as required;

    • Full documentation of example usage of Atlas and other systems/scripts/steps, in relevant repository template and “cookie cutter” repositories;

    • Documentation for the Build-Test-Release working group around how to manage the named release translations;

    • Updating of any documentation that references the old way of doing translations, including on wikis and within the official Open edX documentation;

    • Updating OEP-58 as required to reflect any needed changes the project requires.

Initial Timeline

  • Milestone 1: delivery in 9 to 12 weeks after project start, no later than mid May 2023

  • Milestone 2: 3 to 4 weeks after delivery of Milestone 1, no later than mid July 2023.

 

Notes

Hours Tracking

See FC-0012 - Project Hour Tracking