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Duplicate term translations #4

Open ehuthmacher opened 1 year ago

ehuthmacher commented 1 year ago

Translation files are requiring for the same terms to be translated multiple times. The original translation should auto-populate for increased efficiency.

ehuthmacher commented 1 year ago

@ghassanmas @sambapete please add several examples

ghassanmas commented 1 year ago

A few examples:

sambapete commented 1 year ago

I would even say 6 times if you also include the single use of 'upgrade now' without capitalization.

brian-smith-tcril commented 1 year ago

One thing to consider is that while the default messages may be identical, it's possible they were coded as separate strings instead of using a shared variable intentionally to provide flexibility. With that in mind, it makes sense to have maintainers on each repo decide on a case by case basis if the duplicates need to stay or not.

I think a good path forward for this is to make an issue on each repo that has duplicate strings, and link back to this issue.

That way, this issue can provide the "why," while the issues on each repo can discuss the "what" and "how."

ehuthmacher commented 1 year ago

@brian-smith-tcril How about the future approach for prevention? Can we make it a rule that maintainers check if duplicate strings exist?

OmarIthawi commented 1 year ago

@brian-smith-tcril How about the future approach for prevention? Can we make it a rule that maintainers check if duplicate strings exist?

We discussed the possibility of having an eslint rule to check for messages with duplicate defaultMessage.

ehuthmacher commented 9 months ago

I activated translation memory in the openedx-translation project, which should avoid these issues moving forward.

OmarIthawi commented 9 months ago

I activated translation memory in the openedx-translation project, which should avoid these issues moving forward.

@ehuthmacher Thanks! I'm wondering if you've enabled the memmory in the openedx-translations project in the same Translation Memory group with the old edx-platform and xblocks projects?

If not, please check the translation memory sharing document from Transifex: https://help.transifex.com/en/articles/6225301-sharing-translation-memory