been declared as being translatable, the needed POT and PO files are
created, and the PO files are checked into version control.
-Discussion pages
-----------------
+Discussion pages and other sub-pages
+------------------------------------
Discussion should happen in the language in which the pages are
written for real, *i.e.* the "master" one. If discussion pages are
enabled, "slave" pages therefore link to the "master" page's
discussion page.
+Likewise, "slave" pages are not supposed to have sub-pages;
+[[WikiLinks|wikilink]] that appear on a "slave" page therefore link to
+the master page's sub-pages.
+
Translating
-----------
If [[tips/untrusted_git_push]] is setup, one can edit the PO files in one's
preferred `$EDITOR`, without needing to be online.
+Markup languages support
+------------------------
+
+Markdown is well supported. Some other markup languages supported by
+ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax are not rendered
+correctly on the slave pages:
+
+* [[reStructuredText|rst]]: anonymous hyperlinks and internal
+ cross-references
+* [[wikitext]]: conversion of newlines to paragraphs
+* [[creole]]: verbatim text is wrapped, tables are broken
+* [[html]] and LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a modules
+ could be used to support them, but they would need a security audit
+* other markup languages have not been tested.
+
+
TODO
====
variables; they seem safe to me, but someone more expert than me
will need to check. Joey?
+ > Freaky code, but seems ok due to use of `quotementa`.
+
##### Text::WrapI18N
`Text::WrapI18N` can cause DoS (see the
> familiar with. I can learn and do it, in case no Perl wizard
> volunteers to provide the po4a patch. [[--intrigeri]]
+>> That doesn't really need to be in a BEGIN. This patch moves it to
+>> `import`, and makes this disable wrap18n:
+>> `use Locale::Po4a::Common q{nowrapi18n}` --[[Joey]]
+
+<pre>
+--- /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Common.pm 2008-07-21 14:54:52.000000000 -0400
++++ Common.pm 2008-11-11 18:27:34.000000000 -0500
+@@ -30,8 +30,16 @@
+ use strict;
+ use warnings;
+
+-BEGIN {
+- if (eval { require Text::WrapI18N }) {
++sub import {
++ my $class=shift;
++ my $wrapi18n=1;
++ if ($_[0] eq 'nowrapi18n') {
++ shift;
++ $wrapi18n=0;
++ }
++ $class->export_to_level(1, $class, @_);
++
++ if ($wrapi18n && eval { require Text::WrapI18N }) {
+
+ # Don't bother determining the wrap column if we cannot wrap.
+ my $col=$ENV{COLUMNS};
+</pre>
+
##### Term::ReadKey
`Term::ReadKey` is not a hard dependency in our case, *i.e.* po4a
Perl seems to exit cleanly, and an incomplete PO file is written on
disk. I not sure whether if this is a bug in Perl or in `Po.pm`.
+> It's fairly standard perl behavior when fed malformed utf-8. As long as it doesn't
+> crash ikiwiki, it's probably acceptable. Ikiwiki can do some similar things itself when fed malformed utf-8 (doesn't crash tho) --[[Joey]]
+
#### po4a-translate
`po4a-translate` uses more or less the same po4a features as our
Better links
------------
-### Subpages
+### Page title in links
-On a translation page, links to subpages should actually be links to
-the master page's subpages. They currently appear as broken links.
+Using the fix to
+[[bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles]] from
+[[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch, the generated links' text is based on
+the page titles set with the [[meta|plugins/meta]] plugin. This has to
+be merged upstream, though.
-### Page title in links
+Translation quality assurance
+-----------------------------
-To use the page titles set with the [[meta|plugins/meta]] plugin when
-rendering links would be very much nicer, than the current
-"filename.LL" format. This is actually a duplicate for
-[[bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles]].
+Modifying a PO file via the CGI must be forbidden if the new version
+is not a valid PO file. As a bonus, check that it provides a more
+complete translation than the existing one.
-Going to work on this in my `meta` branch.
+A new `cansave` type of hook would be needed to implement this.
-### Translation status in links
+Note: committing to the underlying repository is a way to bypass
+this check.
-See [[contrib/po]].
+Creating new pages on the web
+-----------------------------
-### Backlinks
+See [[contrib/po|contrib/po]].
-They are not updated when the source page changes (e.g. meta title).
+Renaming/deleting pages
+-----------------------
-Page formats
-------------
+Renaming or deleting a translation in the CGI should be forbidden.
+Implementing this requires two new hooks: `canrename` and `canremove`,
+that would be run respectively by the `rename` and the `remove` plugins.
-Markdown is well supported, great, but what about others?
+Robustness tests
+----------------
-The [[po|plugins/po]] uses `Locale::Po4a::Text` for every page format;
-this can be expected to work out of the box with most other wiki-like
-formats supported by ikiwiki. Some of their ad-hoc syntax might be
-parsed in a strange way, but the worst problems I can imagine would be
-wrapping issues; e.g. there is code in po4a dedicated to prevent
-re-wrapping the underlined Markdown headers.
+### Disabling the plugin
-While it would be easy to better support formats such as [[html]] or
-LaTeX, by using for each one the dedicated po4a module, this can be
-problematic from a security point of view.
+- enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set
+- enabling the plugin without `po_translatable_pages` set: **OK**
+- disabling the plugin: **OK**
-**TODO**: test the more popular formats and write proper documentation
-about it.
+### Changing the plugin config
-Translation quality assurance
------------------------------
+- adding existing pages to `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
+- removing existing pages from `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
+- adding a language to `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
+- removing a language from `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
+- changing `po_master_language`: **OK**
+- replacing `po_master_language` with a language previously part of
+ `po_slave_languages`: needs two rebuilds, but **OK** (this is quite
+ a perverse test actually)
-Modifying a PO file via the CGI must be forbidden if the new version
-is not a valid PO file. As a bonus, check that it provides a more
-complete translation than the existing one.
+### Creating pages
-A new `cansave` type of hook would be needed to implement this.
+- creating a master page via RCS: **OK**
+- creating a master page via CGI: **OK**
-Note: committing to the underlying repository is a way to bypass
-this check.
+### Deleting pages
-Creating new pages on the web
------------------------------
+- removing a master page via RCS: **OK**
+- removing a translation via RCS: **OK**
+- removing a master page via CGI: **OK**
+- removing a translation via CGI: **OK**
+
+### Renaming pages
+
+- renaming a master page via RCS: **OK** (but the old translations
+ are lost, because not all RCS track file renaming)
+- renaming a master page and its translations via RCS: **OK**
+- renaming a master page via CGI: **OK**
+- renaming a translation via RCS
+- renaming a translation via CGI
+
+### Misc
-See [[contrib/po]].
+- general test with `usedirs` disabled: **OK**
+- general test with `indexpages` enabled
+- general test with `po_link_to=default`
Documentation
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