On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 00:27 +0200, Dimitris Glezos wrote: > Better late than never, I've put together some ideas for Google Summer > of Code projects on L10n engineering and Transifex: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas#transifex > > If you're interested in any of them, contact me directly or for more > information. Here's another idea I mailed to Dim directly. While some usability things have been added to the Wiki page in the meantime, I'd like to propose this here as well: --- 8< --- > Hi Dim, > > I just read your blog post about Transifex Google Summer of Code > ideas, I have one that may also be interesting. > > I was wondering if the current workflow for translators could be > improved. AIUI, a translator downloads the .po file from > translate.fp.org or vcs.fedoraproject.org, changes things and pushes > these through Tx. > > I think it'd be beneficial if they could at least download and submit > po files from the same place, or better yet have an additional > web-based PO file editor (does such a thing exist?) where they can > edit the files in-place. This would lower the bar for becoming a > translator tremendously as somebody wanting to contribute in that area > would only need a web browser and few skills beyond the actual > translating. > > As an idea, this could just list the strings that need translation, > one after the other, with a textarea where the translator could type > in the translation, everything else would be read-only. It could also > warn the user if the string contains potential pitfalls like Python > positional parameters (which are a bit confusing to people new to it) > and check if they source positional parameters are translated well. --- >8 --- Dim's answer pretty much boiled down to that this would mean integration of Pootle[1] with Transifex and after skimming over its pages, and trying out the interface, I agree. Dim, do you think it makes sense to spell it out as such on the GSOC wiki page? [1]: Pootle: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/ Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
