[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Translations status (was: Call for Evergreen translations)

[Dan Scott]

Hi all:

I'm back after a one-month hiatus and interested in the state of the
various translation efforts. I'm especially interested in submissions
of updated or new translations; we want to have a chance to test
building, bundling, and running Evergreen with your language. We'd
much rather have early access to a partial translation, so we can
catch potential problems with our build process or tools in time to
make a difference for the final release. I should note that we have
updated a handful of strings since the call for translations to fix
some problems that we found; also, we added a few new strings where we
found hardcoded strings that had been missed in the templates.

At this time we have in the repository:

* Armenian - hy-AM (full translation, with the exception of updates
since September)
* English (United States) - en-US (full translation)
* English (Canada) - en-CA (full translation)
* French (Canada) - fr-CA (full translation, with the exception of a
few updates since late November)

People have indicated they are working on the following translations:

* Brazilian Portugese - pt-BR
* Czech - cs-CZ
* Georgian - ka-GE
* Simplified Chinese - zh-CN

If you have run into any problems with the tools or the PO files,
please let me know and I will try to help resolve the problem(s).

If you missed the first call and would like to contribute to a
different language, that's great - just let me and/or the list know!
If you want to help out with one of these languages, I'll be happy to
try to coordinate efforts with the other translators.

When you contribute a translation, partial or full, please include the
Developer's Certificate of Originality
(http://open-ils.org/documentation/contributing.html#DCO) in your
email.

Thanks!

Dan

2008/11/19 Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com>:
> Evergreen 1.4.0.0, release candidate 2, was made available for
> download from http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php today. This
> release marks the culmination of a significant effort to enable
> translation in every public and staff interface in Evergreen - and at
> this point, the Evergreen development team plans to minimize any
> further changes to translatable strings before the 1.4.0.0 final
> release.
>
> We would like to invite new translations. Evergreen currently includes
> the following translations:
>
>  * Armenian - hy-AM
>  * French (Canadian) - fr-CA
>
> However, as new interfaces such as the MARC importer/exporter have
> been developed and existing interfaces have been enhanced, these
> translations are in need of an update.
>
> Evergreen maintains all translatable strings in GNU gettext (POT/PO)
> format. If you would like to contribute a new translation:
>  1. Download and extract the files from Evergreen 1.4.0.0 RC2
> (http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php)
>  2. Create a new set of PO files based on the POT files in the
> build/i18n/en-US/ directory
>  3. Use a gettext-aware editor like POEdit (http://www.poedit.net/
> for Windows or Linux) to translate the files
>  4. Send the translated files to the Evergreen Development mailing
> list (http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php) with a Developer's
> Certificate of Origin (DCO -
> http://open-ils.org/documentation/contributing.html#DCO) in the body
> of your email.
>
> If you just want to translate the public interface (catalogue), you
> only need to translate the files "opac.dtd.pot" and "db.seed.pot".
>
> If you have any questions about the translation process, or notice
> problems, please send a message to the Evergreen Development mailing
> list and we'll do our best to answer your question or correct our
> mistakes.
>
> Thank you, in advance, for helping Evergreen enter a multilingual world!
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
>



-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University