feat: allow pulling translations by module name rather than repo name #353

OmarIthawi · 2023-05-31T11:47:05Z

In the edx-platform installed XBlocks vary from one installation to another. Therefore, hardcoding the XBlock or plugin list in a Makefile would be cumbersome. Alternatively, the XBlock information is available within the xblock.v1 Python entry points.

When running make pull_translations in the edx-platform, the repository name of the installed XBlock isn't available. On the other hand XBlock's python module name is available.

Rejected alternatives

Hardcode the XBlock names in the edx-platform Makefile and allow maintainers to override the variable name e.g. ATLAS_XBLOCK_REPOS: Similar information is available in the xblock.v1 Python entry points.
Store the GitHub repository name in the XBlock itself e.g. DragAndDropBlock.repo_name == "xblock-drag-and-drop-v2": Similar information is available in the xblock.v1 Python entry points.

TODO

Test locally with feat: experimental atlas and oep-58 i18n service updates FC-0012 edx-platform#31997 on devstack

References

This pull request is part of the FC-0012 project which is sparked by the Translation Infrastructure update OEP-58.

Up-to-date project overview and details are available in the Approach Memo and Technical Discovery: Translations Infrastructure Implementation document.

Join the conversation on Open edX Slack #translations-project-fc-0012.

Check the links above for full information about the overall project.

Internalization is being rearchitected in Open edX Python, XBlock, Micro-frontend, and other projects. There are a number of immediately visible changes:

Remove source and language translations from the repositories, hence no .json, .po or .mo files will be committed into the repos.
Add standardized make extract_translations in all repositories
Push user-facing messages strings into openedx/openedx-translations.
Integrate root repositories with openedx/openedx-atlas to pull translations on build/deploy time

Breaking Changes

One of the primary goals of the project is to avoid breaking changes. If you noticed any suspicious code, please raise your concern. But before that, please know the strategy we're following to avoid breaking changes

For XBlocks:

The standard translation path must be conf/locale. Therefore, we are creating a link from conf/locale to translations so Atlas can find the path without disrupting the current way of having translations locally within the XBlocks
openedx-translations will have a related PR that adds the XBlock to the pipeline. This will not affect the current way of managing/updating translations
At the end of the project, a clear change log will be added and all translations will be handled by Atlas. Thus, the local translation will be removed from the repo within the version bump
A notification for the community will be published to ensure that everyone knows why translations directories are removed from all repos

For Micro-frontends:

Legacy hardcoded translations are kept into the repo.
Consolidate all i18n imports into src/i18n/index.js
Add atlas integration in make pull_translations but only if OPENEDX_ATLAS_PULL is set
Bump frontend-platform and use intl-imports.js to generate up to date import files
If translations is missing, they're added according to the latest Micro-frontend i18n pattern in par with https://github.com/openedx/frontend-template-application/

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brian-smith-tcril

Overall this feels like a good path forward. I left a small comment about a place where the documentation doesn't feel fully clear to me.

python-modules/README.rst

brian-smith-tcril · 2023-05-31T16:21:33Z

python-modules/README.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Python Modules Links


It's not fully clear to me how this is working. I understand how the links are being created in extract-translation-source-files, and I understand that we need to be able to look things up by module name instead of repo name, but it's not clear to me how this works on the edx-platform side.

Is the plan to update edx-platform to look specifically for a python-modules directory as part of the sparse checkout via atlas?

@brian-smith-tcril yes, this has been tested locally with the edx-platform.

The following is the management command that is responsible about pulling the XBlock translations by module name:

https://github.com/Zeit-Labs/edx-platform/pull/2/files#diff-69c7c1e7f1ec08e9d4f9a4a00fae62392ceaecb644f8ad697888e3eefc4a3bc2R27-R45

We'll share a demo soon to clarify the design we're targeting, but for this PR I think it's ready and it's ready to merge after once you find that the documentation is clear for the purpose of this repository.

I think the biggest thing I've having trouble with is the name of the directory. If we look at the root of openedx-translations now, it's fairly clear what every directory is for:

docs requirements scripts translations

Each directory name clearly implies what the directory is for and what it does. It is not clear from reading python-modules what that directory is for, what it does, and why it lives in the root of the repo.

@brian-smith-tcril yes, sure the name makes more sense now.

I'm wondering about edx-platform-translations? It sounds even more specific, but I'm unaware of the long term plan for the edx-platform repo name though, is there an intention to rename it to openedx-platform?

Anyway, both the directory name and the README.rst file has been updated.

What if they lived in translations/edx-platform-links/? I think having translations and openedx-translations as directories at the top level is confusing.

translations/edx-platform-links/

That should be less confusing. Thanks!

OmarIthawi · 2023-06-05T14:54:03Z

@brian-smith-tcril rename done.

Also tested on our fork:

Workflow manual run: https://github.com/Zeit-Labs/openedx-translations/actions/runs/5178534217/jobs/9330134879
Workflow manual run result commit: zeit-labs@5600b8f
Branch tree: https://github.com/Zeit-Labs/openedx-translations/tree/5600b8f06e950821c4c4dbcdea4cd0cd277fff8c/translations/edx-platform-links

Local tree $ ls result:

 audio $ pwd
~/work/openedx/openedx-translations/translations/edx-platform-links/audio
audio $ git status
On branch automated/extract-translation-source-files-20230605T144617
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/automated/extract-translation-source-files-20230605T144617'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
audio $ ls
conf
audio $ tree
.
└── conf
    └── locale
        └── en
            └── LC_MESSAGES
                └── django.po

4 directories, 1 file

brian-smith-tcril

This looks great! 1 little comment about what appears to be a typo in the readme, other than that this should be good to go!

brian-smith-tcril · 2023-06-05T15:04:09Z

translations/edx-platform-links/README.rst

+Pulling ``edx-platform`` translations with Atlas
+------------------------------------------------
+
+The ``atlass`` command has been integrated in the ``edx-platform`` repository therefore there's no need to run ``atlas pull`` manually. Regardless, this section shows the manual command arguments because it's needed for some advanced usage of the edX Platform such as installing custom XBlocks that's not part of the openedx github organizaiton.


is atlass here (with the double s) a typo?

yup, and fixed

…po name This pull request is part of the [FC-0012 project](https://openedx.atlassian.net/l/cp/XGS0iCcQ) which is sparked by the [Translation Infrastructure update OEP-58](https://open-edx-proposals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architectural-decisions/oep-0058-arch-translations-management.html#specification).

openedx-webhooks · 2023-06-05T16:11:16Z

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openedx#353 it's no longer needed because we can pull with glob patterns now see https://github.com/openedx/openedx-atlas/blob/main/docs/decisions/0001-support-glob-pattern.rst Refs: FC-0012 OEP-58

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