Re: [Mailman-i18n] [Mailman-Developers] Translation of Mailman 3
Forwarding to mailman-i18n@python.org. I'm interested in the views of that community. Note this is only about Mailman 3. No change is contemplated to the way translations are handled for Mailman 2.1 On 04/12/2016 03:27 PM, Simon Hanna wrote to Mailman-Developers:
Hi,
I just completed setting up the Mailman 3 projects on zanata.org They can be found here:
https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/mailman https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/postorius https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/hyperkitty
I'm hesitating to ask people to translate because zanata is really slow and I'm afraid of scaring people away from translating mailman in the future :D
Anyhow, I'm writing to ask for your opinions. What do you think about zanata? Maybe you can try translating a couple of things and report how you feel about it.
I stumbled across a few other open source solutions: https://translatewiki.net http://pootle.locamotion.org/ https://demo.weblate.org/
This mediagoblin issue discussed some alternatives when they switched away from transifex. https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/913
There seems to be a pootle server run by gnu itself. https://chapters.gnu.org/pootle/
What do you think?
Simon
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On 04/12/2016 03:27 PM, Simon Hanna wrote to Mailman-Developers:
Hi,
I just completed setting up the Mailman 3 projects on zanata.org They can be found here:
https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/mailman https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/postorius https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/hyperkitty
I'm hesitating to ask people to translate because zanata is really slow and I'm afraid of scaring people away from translating mailman in the future :D
Anyhow, I'm writing to ask for your opinions. What do you think about zanata? Maybe you can try translating a couple of things and report how you feel about it.
I stumbled across a few other open source solutions: https://translatewiki.net http://pootle.locamotion.org/ https://demo.weblate.org/
This mediagoblin issue discussed some alternatives when they switched away from transifex. https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/913
There seems to be a pootle server run by gnu itself. https://chapters.gnu.org/pootle/
What do you think?
From a project standpoint, we have a few considerations. We're a GNU project, so we have a hard requirement that any service we choose must run on free software. From my own perspective, I'd like to separate out what we as project leaders and developers care about from what translators care about. Meaning, we should be able to extract the pot file and templates and upload them whenever it makes sense from a project standpoint. Translators can do their job on their own schedule and don't need to be tied directly to project milestones. To the extent that we have to include any translation artifacts in the software we release, we should be able to get a snapshot when needed and just include it in our release. Then all I care about is that translators are happy enough with the system that they'll actively translate! It does us no good if the service is too painful for translators to use. As a monolinguist, I don't really have any insight into that. ;) We need a Mailman 3 translation champion, someone who understand the technical and more importantly, social issues involved, and can spend time and energy on helping bring a good story to fruition. I'm happy to give wide latitude to the champion to help shape a solution that works for us. Maybe that's you Simon? Cheers, -Barry
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