I totally agree on having the community the ability to speak out. But before setting a vote I would like to set up a Launchpad project so the community can experience how translating OFBiz could work. We could open the project for evaluation for a limited time and have the project removed if the community declines the concept.
-Jeroen On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > This should be a community decision. I propose to set a vote for it. Of > course only binding votes will have an effect in case no consensus emerges. > > Jacques > > From: "Jeroen van der Wal" <[email protected]> >> >> We've extended the code which was contributed to Jira issue >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2008 and think we now have >> the perfect solution for managing OFBiz translations. It uses >> Launchpad https://translations.launchpad.net/ to host the >> translations. The good thing about Launchpad is that it free and it >> doesn't require us to set up and manage any infrastructure. With >> Launchpad we can trivially avoid the legwork involved in making OFBiz >> available in as many languages as possible. >> >> The solution requires the following steps: >> 1. Export the label files (.xml) to a Gettext template file (.pot) and >> for each language a translation file (.po); >> 2. Upload the files to the OFbiz translation project on Launchpad; >> 3. Have the community (also non-technical people) add, modify and >> comment translations through a web-interface; >> 4. Download language files (.po) from Launchpad >> 5. Import and merge translations into OFBiz label files. >> >> Our patch handles step 1 and 5. When new labels are added to OFBiz >> only the template files has to be uploaded to Launchpad and will be >> made available to the communities to be translated. >> >> Now the formal part: We tried setting up a project on Launchpad but >> were contacted by the Launchpad admin to ask approval of the "project >> author" to set up the translation project. The reason for this is to >> prevent angry project authors and dead translation projects. More >> about the Launchpad translation policy can be found here >> https://help.launchpad.net/TranslationsImportPolicy >> >> After the project author (David?) has given approval we will set up >> the Launchpad translation project and hopefully bring translations to >> a higher level. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jeroen van der Wal >> > >
