We've extended the code which was contributed to Jira issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2008 and think we now have the perfect solution for managing OFBiz translations. It uses Launchpad https://translations.launchpad.net/ to host the translations. The good thing about Launchpad is that it free and it doesn't require us to set up and manage any infrastructure. With Launchpad we can trivially avoid the legwork involved in making OFBiz available in as many languages as possible.
The solution requires the following steps: 1. Export the label files (.xml) to a Gettext template file (.pot) and for each language a translation file (.po); 2. Upload the files to the OFbiz translation project on Launchpad; 3. Have the community (also non-technical people) add, modify and comment translations through a web-interface; 4. Download language files (.po) from Launchpad 5. Import and merge translations into OFBiz label files. Our patch handles step 1 and 5. When new labels are added to OFBiz only the template files has to be uploaded to Launchpad and will be made available to the communities to be translated. Now the formal part: We tried setting up a project on Launchpad but were contacted by the Launchpad admin to ask approval of the "project author" to set up the translation project. The reason for this is to prevent angry project authors and dead translation projects. More about the Launchpad translation policy can be found here https://help.launchpad.net/TranslationsImportPolicy After the project author (David?) has given approval we will set up the Launchpad translation project and hopefully bring translations to a higher level. Thanks, Jeroen van der Wal
