August 2008 - Koha-translate - lists.koha-community.org

Base template language for 3.1 (was: Standardised US English Translation)
by Galen Charlton 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM, <russ(a)russandsarah.gen.nz> wrote: >> I am happy to help out with standardising the language used in the default >> Koha install to that of the dictionary everyone agreed on. >> >> It would be easiest for me to do this using Kartouche at >> translate.koha.org, because then I can see how many strings still need to >> be translated and I can do it from anywhere. > Unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated that that. If we replace > all instances > of Catalogue with Catalog, all 28 translations of Koha will need to have their > PO files updated. I've identified a few words and variations that I > _think_ cover > almost all the en-GB/en-US/en-FR issues in the 3.0 version, and I can run a > search and replace against the codebase to update them. Here's what I came > up with: > > organisation authorised catalogue cataloguing Owen recently submitted a patch to implement this change: http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2008-August/001620.html Based on the conversation in April, I believe that we have a general agreement that we'll adopt en_US and the ODLIS dictionary (http://lu.com/odlis/index.cfm) as the base template language. In turn, interested parties can prepare additional English localizations, including en_NZ, en_GB, en_AU, en_US_public, en_US_academic, etc. If there are any serious objections to this, speak now. Therefore, I propose to accept Owen's patch. For the convenience of the translators, I can also prepare a patch to update the existing PO files. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Re: [Koha-translate] greek translation is not working
by Chris Cormack 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi Pablo Yes, I have installed a test pootle http://pootle.workbuffer.org/es/opac/es-ES-i-opac-t-prog-v-3000000.po?trans… It might be a bit slow as its on my server at home. But if people like it, I can get it hosted somewhere with more bandwidth :) One of the things I like with pootle is the ability for people to upload .po files, and merge them with whats there, which means if people want to use an offline tool, they can download the .po, use any of the really nice desktop translating tools and then upload it back. What I also plan to do, is script it so that each night new templates are generated from the .po files. Apart from rosetta and pootle, ... is there any other translation software you like? Chris On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Pablo A. Bianchi <pablo.bianchi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Chris! > > As you know, translate.koha.org is not working well. A lot of people > complaints about it. I sent an email* to koha-translate list with a > lot of improvements it could/must be done, and is impossible for the > community to do them because translate.koha.org is closed in LibLime > servers. I suggested to Joshua to shut down completely > translate.koha.org and migrate all to Canonical Launchpad translation > site. Now that a stable version of Koha has been released is a good > opportunity. Some Russian people seems think the same way, since they > create the Rosetta project. > > * http://www.nabble.com/Web-translation-beta-tester-pack-of-suggestions-td171… > > Launchpad Translations > https://launchpad.net/rosetta > https://launchpad.net/koha > > I was VERY annoying while translating Koha to Spanish. A LOT of > strings in French, is impossible to hide already translated strings. I > have no possibility to contact the one who translate specifics > strings, or make comments; the translation methodology is very > anarchic. > > Another big subject pending is a site (web-based of course) to easily > translate Koha documentation. > > On what things are you working? Installing Pootle? Migrating to > Launchpad? I'm intrigued! > > Cheers, > -- > Pablo > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote: >> Hi Georgia >> >> Im currently installing some new software that hopefully helps >> translating easier. Ill do a post to the list when there is something >> worth looking at. In the meantime. Ill check out what is going on with >> the greek templates .. is it just for the librarian interface or is >> the opac broken also. >> >> >> Chris >> -------- >> Translation Manager in waiting (maybe) >

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Call for Translation Manager
by Joshua Ferraro 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi folks, Well, 3.0-stable is finally out, and includes over 31 translations, and that's really amazing ... thanks so much for all your hard work these past months! I'm writing this email to let you all know that I'm stepping down as the unofficial Translation Manager for future versions of Koha. For 3.0, I was serving as the Release Manager, de-facto QA Manager and the de-facto Translation Manager, and needless to say, that's too much for one person to bear -- I need a break. Many of you had excellent ideas for how to improve the translation framework in Koha to ease the process of translation, and improve the quality of the translations. I wish we'd had time to implement those ideas for 3.0, and I'm hoping we'll have a chance to do so for future versions of Koha. So ... I'm requesting candidates for the (hopefully) official position of Translation Manager. Here's a rough outline of the responsibilities: * Maintain a mechanism for non-technical translation teams to contribute translations to the Koha project (similar to the kartouche tool I've maintained at http://translate.koha.org, though as many of you have pointed out, better tools exist. * Keep all the translation .po files up to date from release to release, including translations submitted via the project-wide translation tool, and translations submitted by others * Coordinate with the RM to set 'string freezes' and communicate to the translation community about such dates * Coordinate with the RM to prepare and install translations of Koha An ideal candidate would have the technical skills necessary to to set up (host), maintain, and customize whatever project-wide translation tool we pick to replace Kartouche; and would be able to improve the existing tools within Koha for creating .po files, as well as make suggestions for how to improve transaltion of areas not currently covered by that tool (MARC Frameworks for instance). Such a candidate should also be able to manage the process of pushing translations upstream to the RM using Git, and providing the RM with access to patches that can't be transmitted easily via email due to length or encoding. As as side note, LibLime will continue to host the Kartouche installation at http://translate.koha.org until another tool is available, and we're happy to coordinate changing the DNS when such a tool is available. Any takers? -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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