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[Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having a technical base (the minimal stuff so we can generate the doc on
another language) would be great, I can then create a 229 branch and
contributing what we'll have there.

Martin

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:27 PM Philip Anthony Larsen Donnelly <
phil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> In answer to your questions:
> 1) Not yet. We have converted only the master branch initially. Future
> versions will of course be branches, but we were considering whether or not
> we spend effort converting older released versions. The ability to take
> translation input for previous releases is a good argument for doing so.
> I'll look into the effort of getting a 2.29 en version in markdown. It
> shouldn't be too difficult.
> 2) The build script is a little bit "hacked" together right now. We could
> tweak it to include e.g. French fairly easily. We need to think about the
> best way to share resources. (We may change to use a more robust build tool
> in the future)
>
> If you let me know your thoughts on schedule, I can work with you to see
> what we can do to coordinate the effort.
>
> Thanks and kind regards,
> Phil
>
> *Philip Larsen Donnelly*
> QA and Release Manager
> DHIS2
> Department of Informatics
> University of Oslo
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 11:59, Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason,
>> Thanks for the update.
>>
>> I'm starting on someting small (2.29, end user manual only), but if this
>> can be made to work on your main repo & pipeline, I see a lot of value (for
>> other french speaking customers).
>> Migration is not a big problem for us.
>>
>> Q1: Is that repository versionned? Having a branch per version (as in the
>> other repo) looks like a good idea to me.
>> Q2: The build process looks to be "hardcoded" for "en" too, if I want to
>> update, any clue on how to make the build script "language independement"
>> (or to include french) ?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:58 AM Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> We have migrated the documentation from DocBook format to Markdown
>>> format. The new docs are available here
>>> <https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-markdown-docs>.
>>>
>>> The old documentation had been partially translated to French and is
>>> still available here <https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-docs-fr>. However,
>>> it was more or less abandoned and has not been updated in quite some time.
>>>
>>> So, as for next steps, I am not really sure how you would like to
>>> proceed. We could potentially try and migrate the old French docs to the
>>> new Markdown format (which we did for the English docs), but I don't know
>>> if its worth it at this point. Perhaps a fresh start with the current
>>> documentation framework would be better? Let me know what you think  and we
>>> can try and help out.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:20 AM Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> For a customer, we'll translate a part of the DHIS2 documentation in
>>>> French (for now the End User Manual of the 2.29). We would like to
>>>> contribute this back so I'm using the XML pipeline of DHIS2 for this.
>>>>
>>>> My problem is that the current pom.xml looks hardcoded toward the "en"
>>>> language, and while the source has folders per language, I don't see
>>>> anything like that on the target folder.
>>>>
>>>> I could make a copy of the pom.xml and make a "pom-fr.xml" but that
>>>> does not look a good idea to me.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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>>
>>
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