Decide on command name

[schlessera]

@miya0001 :

makepot is verb, but other commands on wp-cli are noun. Is it ok?

We should discuss the best name for this command, as wp makepot is less than ideal.

Options so far:
wp i18n ...
wp translations ...
wp pot make

@swissspidy :

I'd prefer wp i18n, e.g. wp i18n makepot or wp i18n addtextdomain

[kjohnson]

Would gettext be the WordPress noun for this?
Seems to match the language of the related filter: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/gettext

[swissspidy]

Grouping these commands under wp i18n would make it possible to add other commands in the future if needed. One such command (addtextdomain or checktextdomain) is being discussed in #7. Then it could look like this:

• wp i18n makepot
• wp i18n addtextdomain

Plus, users could use this namespace, if you so will, for their own sub commands.

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wp translations would be too close to wp language, which is a command for dealing with translation files in a WP install.

[schlessera]

Yes, looks good. We should just use a dash to separate the verb parts:

• wp i18n make-pot
• wp i18n add-text-domain

[swissspidy]

Maybe with another verb then? Perhaps wp i18n generate-pot or wp i18n create-pot? Or even wp i18n pot create (like wp comment create).

[schlessera]

wp i18n pot create sounds like it would be a good fit, but I fear that it might be too close to CRUD and people start to assume they can also list and get and delete and ...

[swissspidy]

Another reason for wp i18n would be that in the future, WordPress core will likely adopt a (better) way to translate JavaScript applications (like Gutenberg). This means there's a need to extract strings from JavaScript and generate a catalog file for them as well. Jed

If it's possible to do extract these strings with PHP (maybe even with the same library), there could be a new wp i18n <…> command in addition to the makepot one.

[schlessera]

Okay, to move forward, let's go with the following:

• Use wp i18n as the command namespace here.
• Use wp i18n make-pot as the subcommand for now. It is the most obvious one, I think.
• Once we further flesh out additional commands, we can reconsider the make-pot name and use an alias for back-compat as needed.

[swissspidy]

Cool. I'll work on that once #13 is merged, to avoid conflicts.