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Superset i18n: Translate user-provided asset labels, titles, etc.

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Description

Description

"As a client of Aspects, I want dashboards and charts in my native language so that I can understand the data I'm viewing."

Enhance Superset to allow users to provide translations for asset fields like dashboard titles and descriptions, chart titles, descriptions, and axis labels.

Solution must also provide an automated way to extract and update asset translations in a format compatible with from Open edX Transifex.

Currently Aspects works around this issue by creating multiple copies of the standard charts and dashboards for each of our supported languages, with hard-coded translations.

Supporting information

https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/13442

Approach
  • Perform a discovery in the form of a Superset Improvement Proposal, and get approved by Superset's contributors.
  • Contribute the change to Superset, in phases as needed.
Aspects specifics
  • Ensure the solution is backported to the Superset version used by Aspects.
  • Replace the Aspects workaround copies with the new translation mechanism, using existing translations where available.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the Superset Improvement Proposal in issue #30723 and the related Superset issue #13442; the payload names no repository files or tests. Done means getting the proposal approved, contributing the change to Superset, backporting it to the Aspects version, and replacing the language-specific workaround copies where translations exist.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
internationalization, localization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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