= Summary =
This page is a proposal for a workflow to be able to translate Django documentation through po files (and [[http://www.transifex.com|Transifex]] platform). See also #18108.

= Translation storage =
Proposal is to store pot files and po translation files in a separate repository (e.g. django-docs-translations). Pot files only take up 4Mb, so considering that for each language, you add ~7Mb, this is too much for the Django main repository.

= Workflow =
1. A modification is done in the /docs dir of Django's repo.

2. New pots are automatically built for stable documentation during each documentation build (`update_docs` command of djangoproject.com) and made available at the URL `https://docs.djangoproject.com/pots/<domain>.pot`.

3. Transifex downloads new pot files once or twice a day.

4. Translators translate strings on Transifex.

5. At defined times, translations are fetched from Transifex and pushed to `django-docs-translations/translations/<locale>/*.po`.

6. Translated docs build:
  * `make translations` in `django-docs-translations` generates .mo files
  * create a symbolic link `django/docs/locale` pointing to `django-docs-translations/translations`
  * `make html LANGUAGE=<locale> in `django/docs`
  * Built HTML files are pushed online

= Issues =

* Some strings are not translatable through po files currently. See https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/docs/_ext/djangodocs.py#L128
* Search should probably be limited in the current language (one search index per language)