About translations

[ataseren]

Hello there, I have a suggestion about the translations. Currently, I'm translating ASVS to Turkish and the translation mechanism is easier for that project since there are versions of the standard and they are being updated in long periods. For this project, however, most of the cheat sheets are updated frequently and it makes impossible to apply such versioning.

My suggestion is using a versioning system for languages other than English. Each translated cheat sheet may have a date tag on them with a warning says that latest version is the English one. This is not the perfect solution but I think it is better than not having the cheat sheets in any other language.

To not cause any inconvenience, translated versions may only be stored in GitHub repository. In this way, there won't be any need for implementing a solution such as i18n as mentoned in #1410 . Also, PRs can be reviewed periodically to decrease the workload of verifying them.

Asking OWASP Chapters could be very useful because people from the chapters can be assigned to the translations of a language. But, such assignment may not be needed at all if there are (and I think there are) volunteers to translate them.

What do you think?

[jmanico]

Hey there. The cheatsheets are all date stamped at the file level. https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/tree/master/cheatsheets

But this is a living encyclopedia, translations will likely be out of date almost immediately. I'm not 100% what we want to do. Let me CC in the other leaders.

cc @mackowski @szh

[mackowski]

I am afraid that translations will drift from the English versions - I have seen this before where at the beginning there is a lot of energy but after 6 months/1 year it is not that exciting anymore...
I am not against it, I am not English native, and I would love to have cheatsheets in Polish or Spanish or any other language to help especially students to learn form them.

How to do this technically? How reader will know that the cheatsheet they are reading is no longer as good or up to date as "orginal" when the content is changed ~5 times a week?