Re: Hello / Transifex !

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Maik Wagner <maikwagner-/[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- Jean-Philippe Braun <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> schrieb am Di, 15.2.2011:
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>> Von: Jean-Philippe Braun <jpbraun-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
>> Betreff: [i18n] Hello / Transifex !
>> An: cooker-i18n-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected]
>> Datum: Dienstag, 15. Februar, 2011 16:53 Uhr
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I think some of you knows me. For the others : I'm
>> Jean-Philippe and I'm
>> working at Mandriva for 3 years now. I used to work on
>> Enterprise
>> products (MDS, Pulse2 and MES5) and I was also doing
>> training courses in
>> France (LPI, Mandriva certifications etc...).
>>
>> Since two months I'm working on Mandriva infrastructure and
>> all
>> websites. Now it's time to start some work with you guys !
>>
>> I've seen some past discussions about Transifex. So I would
>> like your
>> input on this.
>>
>> Actually I have no idea how you are working, directly on
>> the svn ? is
>> there a status page somewhere ? (I found it sometime ago,
>> but lost
>> it :-)). I would be glad if somebody explains me what is
>> the current
>> workflow/process for translations and associated services.
>>
>> Also if somebody has already done some work on Transifex
>> please let me
>> know :) Any comments are appreciated !
>>
>
> Hello Jean-Philippe,
>
> I also do some translations for Germany. I do not have svn-access but have applied for an account. (https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61370) Unfortunately this was left unanswered.
>
> As for the translations I can check out the svn-resources using svn and use poEdit to do the translations. As I cannot include the translations myself, I have created .zip-files of the files modified and posted them in the German Mandriva User Forum mandrivauser.de
>
> As for Transifex I used to do translations using Launchpad during my Ubuntu-days and found this to be quite a good platform. Transifex seems to be quite similar for translations.
>

The only fault Transifex has is that it doesn't allow sending a bunch
of files at once. Maybe the latest versions can do it right now, but I
don't know if this is true. With this feature you would be able to
translate several files offline (lets say 50 po files) and then create
a tarball with all of them, and using the web interface you would be
able to upload the 50 files with two clicks. But right now it is
better to have a working Transifex than having a svn that doesn't work
for all the translators, and with some of them awaiting for their
accounts to be activated.

Bye