Hello Marc, you're right. OXID projects is not a perfect solution for translations. But before, we basically had two or more places were language translations went: OXID projects SVN and OXIDforge wiki were you had to copy - paste entire files... The less technical people didn't even know how to handle the wiki and gave up translating, copy - pasted in a wrong encoding or simply uploaded files to the forums. Also, most of the translators so far had a technical background. The others mostly posted via the forums that they don't know where to upload their files...
Despite this, I reckon the translation will become more complex in the future thinking of the setup routine, demo data for products or the CMS data, where you would need sql files as well. Of course, I'd really like to have an inline translation tool, gettext or similar support. If somebody of you guys had a great idea - your help is appreciated! Regards Marco ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of development [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [oxid-dev-general] New blog post: Language Translation Files Moved to OXIDprojects Hi Marco Thanks for informing us about this. Though I am personally a big fan of law (rules) and order (structures) within a FOSS project I fear that the use of a SVN repository as the place to store and get language files from might hinder or at least introduce some insecurity to the less technically adepted people. And about the alternative of sending the translations to your email isn't the ideal solution. Let's assume a total new member of our fine community wants to do a translation which he wants to share with us afterwards. What are the steps or better said where and how do you lead this member? I ask this question because the commitment of such people can rise or fall with the leadership, starting with such simple tasks. >From Basel Marc ORCA Services AG Herrenmattstrasse 26 CH-4132 Muttenz Office Basel: Aeschengraben 10, CH-4051 Basel [email protected] T. +41 61 205 80 80 T. +41 61 205 80 73 (direkt) F. +41 61 205 80 81 www.orca.ch, www.orca-services.ch "We convert your visitors into customers." -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Marco Steinhaeuser Gesendet: Montag, 20. Juni 2011 12:24 An: [email protected] Betreff: [oxid-dev-general] New blog post: Language Translation Files Moved to OXIDprojects Hi everybody, a few minutes ago, I published a new blog post about the changed language handling: http://www.oxid-esales.com/de/news/blog/language-translation-files-moved-oxidprojects Languages moved from OXID forge wiki to OXID projects. Your help is appreciated! :-) https://projects.oxidforge.org/projects/languages Regards Marco _______________________________________________ dev-general mailing list [email protected] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general _______________________________________________ dev-general mailing list [email protected] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general _______________________________________________ dev-general mailing list [email protected] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general
