Wynand and Friedel,
Thank you for the warm welcome. I had originally downloaded Pootle as a zip file -- the svn repository link in the installation guide gave me a 404. Has the location changed? > Wynand > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I just joined the list and thought I would introduce myself. I'm a > > translator of Russian and French and a die-hard pythonista. I have not > yet > > actually used Pootle professionally, just played with a demo server, but > I > > read a good chunk of the source yesterday. Pootle appeals to me for > three > > reasons - > > > > 1) I would like to burn my copies of Windows in the street, but I need to > > take a CAT tool over to Ubuntu first; > > 2) I want to be able to extend/hack my CAT tool in Python; > > 3) I'd like those extensions to be contributed to other users rather than > be > > a violation of some draconian license agreement. > > > > I am also an avid Django user and am pretty familiar with its internals. > If > > there is a port underway from jToolkit to Django, I'd love to help! > > > > Regards, > > Jonathan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Translate-pootle mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:25:35 +0200 > From: "Samuel Murray (Home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [translate-pootle] Should merge overwrite fuzzy? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > G'day everyone > > Yesterday I uploaded partial PO files using the "merge" option, thinking > that my translations will be merged into the existing files. > > What I did not bargain on was the way Pootle handles conflicts with > existing fuzzy strings. I had known that my translations would become > "suggestions" if there are conflicts, but I didn't realise that a fuzzy > string in the online PO file would be seen as "better" than a non-fuzzy > translation in the uploaded file. > > What is your opinion on this? > > Sure a translation is better than a fuzzy? Now my project on Pootle is > full of "suggestions". Even if I upload the entire file in "overwrite" > mode, the suggestions are not affected and they remain there as > suggestions, visible to all. > > Samuel > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:57:22 +0200 > From: F Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [translate-pootle] Pootle newcomer > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Do, 2008-07-31 at 10:38 -0400, Jonathan Lukens wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I just joined the list and thought I would introduce myself. I'm a > > translator of Russian and French and a die-hard pythonista. I have not > yet > > actually used Pootle professionally, just played with a demo server, but > I > > read a good chunk of the source yesterday. Pootle appeals to me for > three > > reasons - > > > > 1) I would like to burn my copies of Windows in the street, but I need to > > take a CAT tool over to Ubuntu first; > > 2) I want to be able to extend/hack my CAT tool in Python; > > 3) I'd like those extensions to be contributed to other users rather than > be > > a violation of some draconian license agreement. > > > > I am also an avid Django user and am pretty familiar with its internals. > If > > there is a port underway from jToolkit to Django, I'd love to help! > > > > Regards, > > Jonathan > > > Hallo Jonathan > > The Translate project (including Pootle) suits your three reasons very > well! If you are specifically interested in moving Pootle away from > jToolkit, I suggest you help us with these steps by perhaps some small > refactorings and isolating some of the parts that depends on that. We > have already done some of it, and in the Mozootle branch there is also a > lot of work related to this. Feel free to join us in #pootle on > irc.freenode.net if you want to discuss some ideas more interactively. > > Specifically, there is some work done on authentication in the Mozootle > branch that you might want to have a look to port over to trunk. There > is similar work on storing preferences that received attention in that > branch. > > There is a whole ecosystem of translation tools in our project, and I > welcome you to find a home for you here. > > Keep well > Friedel > > > > > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Translate-pootle mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle > > > End of Translate-pootle Digest, Vol 27, Issue 1 > *********************************************** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
