The only "weakness" I see in transifex is that if they ever change their model to start charging FOSS projects, they've got the data and can cause some mischief. If we want to change from Pootle, but still control the server/data, take a look at http://weblate.org. The interface is a little like Pootle, but I'll leave judgment calls up to the people that actually *use* it; I just know a peer who has used it, and liked it. -Ruth On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:47 AM, D Ruth Bavousett <druthb@gmail.com> wrote:

As a non-translating tool-wielding person, I'll just say that I'm willing to support whatever tool you folks need! I'd like to hear from some other prominent translators on this!

-Ruth

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>wrote:

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Hello koha-devel & koha-translate,

Users translating Koha to french are regularly reporting that pootle is a poor tool, not very efficient. Someone suggested transifex, that is free for OpenSource softwares (https://www.transifex.com)

I just opened an account, created a koha project, added french translation for 3.12

It seems *much* more friendly & efficient than pootle. Is there someone wanting to investigate a little bit more this tool ? (if yes, create an account & drop me a mail with your transifex nick) Could switching to this tool be a good idea ?

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Le 07/03/2013 17:56, D Ruth Bavousett a écrit :

The only "weakness" I see in transifex is that if they ever change their model to start charging FOSS projects, they've got the data and can cause some mischief. I agree it's a big concern. Isn't http://help.transifex.com/features/api/index.html at least partially answering it ? (I haven't checked what it provides)

If we want to change from Pootle, but still control the server/data, take a look at http://weblate.org. The interface is a little like Pootle, but I'll leave judgment calls up to the people that actually *use* it; I just know a peer who has used it, and liked it. will try to have a look (is someone else want, please do !)

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:57:33PM +0100, Mirko wrote:

D Ruth Bavousett schrieb am 07.03.2013

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As a non-translating tool-wielding person, I'll just say that I'm willing to support whatever tool you folks need! I'd like to hear from some other prominent translators on this!

-Ruth

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>wrote:

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Hello koha-devel & koha-translate,

Users translating Koha to french are regularly reporting that pootle is a poor tool, not very efficient. Someone suggested transifex, that is free for OpenSource softwares (https://www.transifex.com)

Without having tried it, I don't like the SaaS-only approach of Transifex, and I especially do not like it in conjunction with the slogan »Take control of your localization experience«.

There is no way we can just switch the translation platform. I'm all for trying alternatives as I agree Pootle is not much fun to work with, but those should be tested carefully. And I would really prefer a platform under our control over one that only claims to be and looks like it is the opposite.

I totally agree about downsides of SaaS, however, it seems that transifex itself is open source: https://github.com/transifex/transifex We recently had local Koha user group meeting at which we tried to explain to our librarians how to use pootle, and it was not easy :-) -- Dobrica Pavlinusic 2share!2flame dpavlin@rot13.org Unix addict. Internet consultant. http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin