Congratulations to everyone involved. I know some have done a lot of work on this release (I've heard the grinding of teeth). But to everyone who ported, checked, hacked, tested, packaged and scrubbed this version, well done!
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 13:40 +0000, F Wolff wrote: > After a long wait we finally bring you the third beta of the next > version of Pootle. This release is close to where we want Pootle 1.3 to > be. > > Apart from improvements to stability, performance and major internal > improvements, we also added some new features: > > - Default server permissions as well as permissions for a language team > can now be changed through the web interface. > > - Administrators are able to delete files from the web interface. > > - We've added the ability to upload translation templates (POT files), > which means you can now finally start a new translation project and > manage it from the web interface with no need for using the command line > or having shell access to the server. > > - Through the work of the awesome guys at OpenCraft, administrators can > now keep their community informed with announcements (with RSS) for a > language or for a specific project the language team is working on. > > - Users can change and reset their passwords through the web interface > > - After moving from kid to Django templates, we now have nicer looking > error pages. More importantly, it is much easier now to customize > Pootle's look and feel and override default templates. > > - There is a script to import settings from old Pootle installations. > Please test this on your setup and let us know how well it works in your > environment. > > > You can run Pootle directly from source (an SVN checkout or just > extracting the archive). We've also added a new setup.py script so you > can install Pootle. Configuration can now be done in the file called > localsettings.py which will be under /etc/pootle/ if Pootle is > installed. > > > Pootle uses caching extensively to speed up translation statistics and > improve performance. For optimal performance (especially under apache) > you should use memcached as your caching backend (edit localsettings.py > to enable memcached support). > > Being a Django application, Pootle runs under Apache (mod_wsgi or > mod_python) or from the command line. It can use any Django supported > DBMS as its backend including the default sqlite and the ever popular > MySQL. > > Starting from this release Pootle is now in tentative code freeze, we > are unlikely to introduce any new features or make any drastic changes > to the codebase. We'll focus on improving stability and performance. > Your feedback and bug reports will help us to finalise this faster than > we can ever do this alone. > > Pootle depends on the recently released Translate Toolkit 1.4, and > Django 1.0. (We have minor incompatibility with Django 1.1 in some > admin pages. Hopefully we'll find a workaround soon.) > > You can download this beta from: > http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ > > > Please check the README and > http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/installation_1.3beta for > installation instructions. > > > Keep well > The Pootle development team > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Translate-pootle mailing list > Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle -- Dwayne Bailey Associate Research Director +27 12 460 1095 (w) Translate.org.za ANLoc +27 83 443 7114 (c) Recent blog posts: * Google Translate + libtranslate + Virtaal = machine translation in 7 new languages http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/dwayne/en/content/google-translate-libtranslate-virtaal-machine-translation-7-new-languages * Fixes for Skype Video, Webcam on Fedora * libtranslate, TM plugins and Virtaal Firefox web browser in Afrikaans - http://af.www.mozilla.com/af/ African Network for Localisation (ANLoc) - http://africanlocalisation.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
