Beyond Translation: The Journey of Building the Japanese Kubernetes SIG…
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Japanese SIG Docs maintains kubernetes.io/ja, the style guide, and a localization tracker, and reports 1170 merged PRs last year from about 50 unique contributors with more than 600 translated files in the repo. The community runs upstream training roughly twice a year and uses a Kubernetes contributor playground to land first PRs, enforces the kubernetes.dev AI contribution guidelines, and prioritizes mentor-led onboarding, reviewer-first contributions, and tooling improvements that have kept localization active and reproducible.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00SIG Docs Japan intro
- 3:38Japanese localization history
- 5:44Why Japanese community active
- 7:55Localization guide & training
- 9:23Aisan’s contributor journey
- 16:54Open source lessons learned
- 20:39Future plans for SIG Docs
- 22:51AI contributions guidelines
- 23:56Collaboration with teams
- 24:36Call to action
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