[New-bugs-announce] [issue26546] Provide translated french translation on docs.python.org

[Julien]

New submission from Julien:

Hi,

The [french translation of the Python documentation](https://github.com/afpy/python_doc_fr) just hit a 21% coverage in terms of pageviews (According to statistics [nicely provided by EWDurbin](https://github.com/AFPy/python_doc_fr/issues/32#issuecomment-195071379)). (It's 14% of the total strings to translate).

I think it may be a good time to push the translation to *docs.python.org*, so french speaking people will be able to find it naturally, and more translators will be aware of it, increasing the translation speed.

Also it will probably motivate other translations (http://docs.python.jp/3/, http://docs.python.org.ar/tutorial/3/index.html, others ?) to work in a more standardized ways, and make their translations more discoverable.

So there's two discussions to have: The URL, and the "how".

# URL

I think the only reasonable possibility is *docs.python.org/{country_code}/*

Having a CCTLD per translation is near impossible (a LOT or work and highly time consuming) as some domains are unavailable like python.fr and some other have high restrictions like having a physical presence in the country (like python.ca, python.pt.br) or having a commercial relation with a local company like for python.com.tr).

Also it allows localization via *docs.python.org/fr_FR/* even if I don't think we need it soon.

If you have other ideas, better than *docs.python.org/fr/*, that's why this issue is opened.

# How to

We have a [Makefile](https://github.com/AFPy/python_doc_fr/blob/master/Makefile) which like [docsbuild-scripts](https://github.com/python/docsbuild-scripts) delegates naturally most of its work to the sphinx Makefile in *Doc/Makefile*, and is capable of building french versions of 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 in a simple invocation of `make build_all MODE=autobuild-stable` (cloning itself from the github repository, applying various patches (typically to configure sphinx to generate french). 3.2 is also possible but not built by default (no autobuild-html in its sphinx Makefile). 

I think docsbuild-scripts may delegate the french generation by simply cloning/updating our repository and calling our makefile. A patch (attached) will be necessary in docsbuild-scripts to copy generated doc to /fr/ and send purges to the CDN.

Finally, once all this is running, we'll start a discussion about cross-linking both documentations, probably reopening https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/1246.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: build_doc_fr.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 261654
nosy: benjamin.peterson, docs at python, sizeof
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Provide translated french translation on docs.python.org
type: enhancement
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42150/build_doc_fr.patch

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