Translation website unavailable

[Dynnammo]

Good morning here, newbie on Polis, so excuse in advance if this question was already answered.

I tried to go on the translation website : https://polis-translations.herokuapp.com/, but it returns me a 503 error.

Does this mean there is no more translation platform, or was it moved elsewhere ?

[metasoarous]

Hi @Dynnammo. That site was set up as an experiment by an OSS volunteer/contributor, and was never fully integrated, so we have stuck with simply submitting pull requests, as described in #1507.

Please let us know there if you have follow up questions.

Also, if you can, please let us know where you found that link, in case there's some documentation which needs to be updated.

Thanks!

[Dynnammo]

I had to go deep inside the issues of polis to find out 😄 . I think it'll be relevant to add a small section in the README, since translation is sometimes what can push people to contribute in a OSS project or discover it.

[patcon]

heh you're totally right @Dynnammo. Sorry @metasoarous, the dead links in random old issues were my fault, but I've searched them out and edited them to be clear that they no longer work :)

@Dynnammo Might you be willing to submit a PR to document translations? If you're a fan of the project, it might be nice to get your name in the commit history, and it certainly looks good on the project when there are more contributors listed on github 😊 Maybe a short line in the "Get Involved" section of the main readme could link to a subsection of CONTRIBUTING.md that goes into more depth? Or what do you think best @metasoarous @Dynnammo?

Some further details in this comment might be helpful: #761 (comment) (and pls do feel free to scavenge content from there to get started!)