Today the Pootle team announces the release candidate for the upcoming Pootle 2.0 (yes, yes we thought we'd be extravagant and call it 2.0, it is a major rewrite after all).
We are coming to the end of a long development cycle that brings many improvements to Pootle. We believe that with your final testing we can bring this to release very soon. Improvements since beta4: Many usability improvements, such as paging in long admin pages. Easier configuration for clean installation, as well as fixes to the migration script for existing Pootle installations. Installing under mysql is much easier now that Pootle can create it's own database tables and initial data automatically on first request. Refreshing statistics from the command line will now use significantly less memory. We tweaked the default configuration to be more efficient, Pootle will also now guide administrators with hints on improving their installations with optional dependencies and better configs. Anonymous users will get most pages from cache, this improves server load (specially when bots and crawlers are visiting), but not that this introduces a slight delay in progress statistics updates for anonymous users. As always, lots of time was spent improving stability and performance. Pootle 2.0 was already being used by several projects as far back as beta2 so it's about time we started eating our own pap before serving it. The live Pootle server http://pootle.locamotion.org was upgraded to this release candidate today and we used the migration script to import old user accounts and data. This release candidate also indicates the string freeze, and we ask translators to jump in and help us to bring Pootle to speakers in your language. Pootle 1.2 was available in over 80 languages the younger 2.0 is dying of envy. This release candidate depends on version 1.5.0 of the Translate Toolkit. http://sourceforge.net/projects/translate/files/Translate%20Toolkit/1.5.0/ Download this release candidate of Pootle here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/Pootle-2.0.0-rc1/ Pootle depends on Django version 1.0 or 1.1 (http://www.djangoprojects.org) make sure they're installed before attempting to run it. This should be available in your Linux distribution's package manager. You can run Pootle directly from source (an SVN checkout or just extracting the downloaded archive) just run the PootleServer command. It can also be installed using the setup.py command. Pootle should run fine out of the box, but advanced users (or anyone deploying under apache) will want to check the configuration options in the localsetting.py file (if you install using setup.py it'll be /etc/pootle/localsettings.py). Pootle uses caching extensively to speed up translation statistics and improve performance. For optimal performance (especially under apache) you should use memcached as your caching backend (edit localsettings.py to enable memcached support). Being a Django application, Pootle runs under Apache (mod_wsgi or mod_python) or from the command line. It can use any Django supported DBMS as its backend including the default sqlite and the ever popular MySQL. Remember you can download this beta from: http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ Please check the README and INSTALL files as well as http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/installation_1.3beta for installation instructions. Keep well The Pootle development team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
