How One Developer Used CI and a Single Source of Truth to Keep OSS Translations Fresh
A developer working on PSXRecompStudio identified a common problem in multilingual open-source projects: translated documentation quickly falls out of sync with the original, leaving readers and AI tools unsure which version is current. To address this, they designated English documents as the canonical source of truth and stored the mapping between originals and translations in a JSON config file. Continuous integration checks then automatically detect when a translation has not been updated to reflect changes in the canonical file, making staleness a visible build-time failure rather than a manual oversight. Each translated document is also required to include a clear link back to its canonical counterpart, establishing an explicit hierarchy of authority. The approach applies standard software-engineering principles — defined ownership, machine-readable relationships, and automated validation — to documentation maintenance.
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