RFC: adding locale setup on new locales

[andrewrubin]

Would like to get some discussion going on a new feature — I am not sure if it's necessary though.

the issue

Creating a page with any new locales requires extra setup in the locale config and the YAML globals. For example, running corgi page MyAwesomePage --locales cs-CZ on a fresh project requires extra setup for the page to work (unless you already have a Czech locale setup, in this example).

the question

Are we bothered by this? Typically you bootstrap a project with all locales and configs you need, but maybe automated locale setup should be a feature.

[marlonmarcello]

I like this. I am all for automation, the less we need to think and configure things manually, and potentially foget to, the better.

[rvno]

In.

Think it'd be particularly useful to have a command that can include/exclude/omit which locales are being built as well. For both DPR sites I manually moved locales into a tmp folder since it was an EN 'release' first, and then had to move them all back. Had to do quite a bit of manual updating b/c I had forgotten that I moved em in the first place.and had created new versions and spent time reconciling differences.

[andrewrubin]

great idea @rvno

I'll make a separate issue for that

[andrewrubin]

Think it'd be particularly useful to have a command that can include/exclude/omit which locales are being built as well.

Just an update there, that is being discussed with issue #56 , and has been fixed in v2.0.0 release (#65)

[andrewrubin]

Resurrecting this:
Creating new locales if they don't exist, when using the --locales flag while creating a Page.

I think it's still a cool idea, but there are some concerns:

• It needs to generate a globals file for the locale
• How does that globals file get generated — i.e. from what? The default language? A user-specified one after a prompt in the command line?

These feel like pretty opinionated decisions for a small return. Might just be easier to create a global locale file manually. I'm happy for us to go down this path though, so let's chat about it

[andrewrubin]

Any opinions on my last comment there, a year later? 🙃

Is this issue worth addressing? Should we just error/warn instead, if someone tried to bootstrap a page with a non-existent locale?