Common-voice: Link "pt-BR" localization to "pt"

Created on 24 Apr 2019 · 12Comments · Source: mozilla/common-voice

Hi,

Dataset languages include Portuguese "pt" without any variants but currently we just have pt-BR localization.

As a temporal way to fix Portuguese dataset collection, I would like to request we use pt-BR localization for pt and enable it on the site, this way we will be able to add sentences.

pt-BR should redirect to pt on the site.

Cheers.

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nukeador

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pt-BR and pt are spoken quite differently and written somewhat differently.

kdavis-mozilla on 25 Apr 2019

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pt-BR and pt are spoken quite differently and written somewhat differently.

kdavis-mozilla on 25 Apr 2019

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Let's have a conversation about this before closing the issue, thanks.

nukeador on 25 Apr 2019

Oh sorry, didn't mean to close this.

kdavis-mozilla on 25 Apr 2019

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Based on the conversations we had about language strategy, let's move ahead to avoid blocking Portuguese anymore.

@Gregoor can we mirror for now "pt-BR" into "pt" and enable the site just in "pt"?

nukeador on 18 Jul 2019

@nukeador we can, haven't renamed a locale before, wanna make sure I get the process right. Let's put it onto the todos for next week! (Don't think it'll take long, it's just a first)

Gregoor on 18 Jul 2019

@Gregoor @nukeador I am working on something similar for other projects: consolidating two bn-* locales to bn. This is what we are doing so we don't lose the data in Pontoon:

Gregor:

create a pt repo
move pt-BR repo to pt
remove pt-BR repo (let us know when this is done)

Pontoon:

disable pt-BR (to stop contributing to the locale)
migrate pt-BR data to pt (including contributor's history)
L10n PM confirms the update and comment in the issue, so we can close the task.

peiying2 on 18 Jul 2019

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@peiying2 can you clarify what do you mean by "repo" here?

My understanding is that we should move/rename folders.

Peiying's feedback:

https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/tree/master/web/locales - I would recommend to make a copy of pt-BR and rename it to pt.

This will allow you to go to all the files containing locale related information and make the necessary changes before removing pt-BR web files.

Make sure this is done in a timely manner if you don't have two locales co-existing for a period of time, but completely switch over. Here are some example of the places you need to make update:

https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/blob/master/locales/native-names.json
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/blob/master/locales/translated.json