Templates
---------
+When `po_link_to` is not set to `negotiated`, one should replace some
+occurrences of `BASEURL` with `HOMEPAGEURL` to get correct links to
+the wiki homepage.
+
The `ISTRANSLATION` and `ISTRANSLATABLE` variables can be used to
display things only on translatable or translation pages.
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
into the Pot file, and let it propagate; should be fixed in
`773de05a7a1ee68d2bed173367cf5e716884945a`, time will tell.
-Misc. improvements
-------------------
-
-### page titles
+Better links
+------------
-Use nice page titles from meta plugin in links, as inline already
-does. This is actually a duplicate for
-[[bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles]], which might
-be fixed by something like [[todo/using_meta_titles_for_parentlinks]].
+### Page title in links
-### source files format
-
-Markdown is supported, great, but what about others? The set of file
-formats supported both in ikiwiki and po4a probably is greater than
-`{markdown}`. Warning: the po4a modules are the place where one can
-expect security issues.
+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.
Translation quality assurance
-----------------------------
Note: committing to the underlying repository is a way to bypass
this check.
+
+Creating new pages on the web
+-----------------------------
+
+See [[contrib/po|contrib/po]].
+
+Robustness tests
+----------------
+
+### Disabling the plugin
+
+- enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set
+- enabling the plugin without `po_translatable_pages` set: **OK**
+- disabling the plugin: **OK**
+
+### Changing the plugin config
+
+- 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)
+
+### Creating pages
+
+- creating a master page via RCS: **OK**
+- creating a master page via CGI: **OK**
+
+### Deleting pages
+
+- 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
+
+- general test with `usedirs` disabled: **OK**
+- general test with `indexpages` enabled
+- general test with `po_link_to=default`
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+Maybe write separate documentation depending on the people it targets:
+translators, wiki administrators, hackers. This plugin may be complex
+enough to deserve this.