Scope should be larger about vscode-l10n

[PeterWone]

I had a notion of a split view of source and target language for the translator. It's not central.

[PeterWone]

Another idea was to sketch out the translations using Azure translate so that translators just skim and take a hand when the sense is wrong or particular idiom is required as is often the case for software.

[TylerLeonhardt]

I really like these ideas and I like the idea of having l10n-dev be about the localization dev experiences. That's why I recently added this pseudolang command: #20 which is more of a helper than it is required.

Can you break this up into individual issues of the tools/commands you wish to see so we can evaluate them one by one? That will also help folks who may want to contribute.

There's a lot we can do here, and I am but one person.... so any assistance is greatly appreciated :)

[PeterWone]

I'm in a handy situation where every member of my dev team at work speaks English and one other natural language. Several of them contribute translations to one of my projects. I told them you responded positively and we're workshopping the idea so as to get a more balanced view. One of the things I want to examine is the interplay between version control, maintainer workflow and translator workflow. This should tell us the activities tools and commands must support.

Originally I imagined an extension because it's inherently cross platform, but another possibility is CLI tools, maybe on top of gulp because it's already there for people doing localisation.

[TylerLeonhardt]

The beauty of building a CLI that also had code entrypoints is that we can do both a CLI & a VS Code extension to assist folks. Not entirely sure what an extension would do to help besides be a Command Palette wrapper around the CLI

[TylerLeonhardt]

Yeah that sounds really nice. If it were a web extension, I like the idea of pointing someone to a vscode.dev/github/.... url where they can contribute without cloning the repo locally

[TylerLeonhardt]

sketch out the translations using Azure translate

This sounds awesome.