Ubuntu Translations Portal

Work items for natty-alpha-1:
[dpm] Investigate hosting options for a staging site for the portal: DONE
[dpm] Investigate existing CMS solutions for a portal, their internationalization support, and write a brief report with the findings: DONE
[dpm] Create and set up an ul10n-portal project in Launchpad for development of the site: DONE
[dpm] Create and set up an open ul10n-portal-discuss team with a mailing list for community discussion purposes: DONE
[dpm] Create and set up a moderated ul10n-portal-dev team for community participation in the development of the Ubuntu Translations Portal: DONE
[dpm] Create and set up a moderated ul10n-portal-editors team in Launchpad for the core Ubuntu Translations Portal editorial team: DONE
[dpm] Create a mockup for the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: DONE
[dpm] Deploy a staging site for the Ubuntu Translations Portal from a cloud instance: DONE
[daker] Assist dpm with setting up the Ubuntu Translations Portal infrastructure: DONE

Work items for natty-alpha-2:
[dpm] Organize the structure and content of the Ubuntu Translations Portal staging site according to the previously created mockup: POSTPONED
[dpm] Aggregate news content in the Ubuntu Translations Portal from translations-related feeds (team coordinators, Fridge, Planet Ubuntu, etc.): TODO
[dpm] Apply an Ubuntu-Light-based theme to the Ubuntu Translations Portal staging site: DONE
[milo] Create a list of the core translations docs that would need to go on the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: POSTPONED
[kelemeng] Create a set of core docs to be hosted on the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: POSTPONED
[knitzsche] Create a document with submission guidelines for: a) user-submitted content and b) site editors: DONE
[mk73628] Assist with the Ubuntu Translations Portal content editing of docs, proofreading, life of translator: DONE
[dpm] Publish core translations documentation in the Ubuntu Translations Portal: POSTPONED

Work items for natty-alpha-3:
[dpm] File a request ticket (RT) for the Canonical IS team to deploy the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: DONE
[dpm] Create a list of top-level Ubuntu websites where we should add a link to the Ubuntu Translations Portal: DONE
[dpm] Announce the creation of the portal when it is deployed: POSTPONED

Status
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* (26 Apr 2011) Announcement postponed: RT filed, but no ETA for deployment yet. As we're nearing the release date, this will most likely be post-release.

Notes
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 * No centralized place to find out how to get started with translations

 * We could put lots of things that should be in Launchpad - it is still a developer-oriented place.

 * Requirements:
   * Internationalization
   * Established tool

 * Questions:
   * Discoverability: how do we get people to land on the portal, rather than e.g. Launchpad
     - idea: maybe LoCo teams could point people there
     - links in other portals
     - ubuntu.com/getting involved
     - i18n should be linked on developer.ubuntu.com
   * Core editorial team - with guidelines
   * Others could write/promote articles for the editorial team to publish
   * People might not be able to write in English, but we should encourage them to write articles in a language they are comfortable with, but we should try as hard as possible to provide a good English translation as well (and further aim at getting even more translations)
   * This site should be *excellent*: only the very best content can get on it

 * Documentation split between "core" (recommended to be translated to all languages, and a "mandatory" read for all translators) and "optional".

 * Modular portal: reuse theme for now
 * I think we should start with things like: how to use LP translations, what is upstream-downstream, what do we translate,

 * Roadmap:
   * Deployment with i18n support
   * Content addition:
     * Newsfeed (announcements)
     * Documentation
   * Ensure discoverability: links to website

* Links to the translations portal should be available in:

• ubuntu.com
• wiki.ubuntu.com/translations
• developer.ubuntu.com (on an Internationalization section, perhaps)
• unity.ubuntu.com (on the contribute page)
• loco.ubuntu.com (although there is not yet a contribute page or links)
• The translators FB page
• The translators microblogging pages