On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Alaa Abd El Fattah <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hola lists, > > Last week we rolled out the first alpha release of the upcoming (and > very exciting) Pootle 2.2 and asked for your feedback on the new visual > design (thanks to Igor) and the new interactive translation editor > (thanks to Julen). > > To help you help us this release we created a testing server > http://test.locamotion.org , please go there and play around a bit. the > data is disposable so don't worry about making mistakes. > > It's a copy of the main pootle server http://pootle.locamotion.org so > if you already have an account there you'll be able to use to login on > the test server. > > While building the test server we found and fixed a couple of bugs, if > you want to test locally get the updated alpha package from > http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/Pootle-2.2.0-alpha1a/ > > And for those he missed the original announcement of last week I'm > pasting it below. > > Enjoy, > Alaa
Since there are a lot of new things, maybe you should think on changing the version to Pootle 3. > ---- > > Only few days after Pootle 2.1 was released We've been working in the > dark on our most exciting release yet. and now it is time to give you > all a taste. > > Pootle 2.2 is a radical release, it features a rich interactive (AJAX) > translate page written by Julen (big applause). and a daring new visual > design by Igor Afanasyev (more applause). > > Get the alpha from > http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/Pootle-2.2.0-alpha1a/Pootle-2.2.0-alpha1a.tar.bz2 > > Not only does it look and feel fresh the new translate page brings > fresh ideas too, instead of stepping through strings you can now filter > strings based on their translation state, quality checks, suggestions > or search their content. the filtering is interactive and flexible, > only matching units are displayed (but we cleverly continue to display > the current unit in it's original context). > > It's a big departure from all previous versions, and Pootle now > requires javascript for it's operation. to encourage the more > conservative among you we've also added **DRUMROLL** interactive > translation memory support **END DRUMROLL** > > Yes folks that's real honest to god full fledged translation memory > coming your way. for now it is actually just a prototype for a remote > translation memory server that we'll be launching soon called amaGama > but don't tell anyone. (data on the server is not complete, so don't > expect good coverage, we are afterall just giving you a glimpse). > > Hopefully by the 2nd alpha you'll get translation memory results from > your Pootle database itself, this way Pootle will learn from your > translations and help you reuse them. > > Now big changes like these require lots of testing, we need to make > sure the new design works fine under most browsers, languages, screen > sizes, operating systems and phases of the moon. we also want to hear > lots of feedback about the direction we're taking the new interface. > > head here for a list of common tasks to test > http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/developers/pootle/common_tasks > > This is still early in the development process so if you want to see > something changed now is a good time to bring it up. > > Despite the alpha label and the newness of it all this is actually a > very stable release since we did not change anything about the data > model or the back end server stuff. only the UI changed so there is > minimal risk of dataloss. however DO NOT USE THIS VERSION FOR > PRODUCTION WORK, you can play with it, you can even run it live on the > web as long as your users understand it is for testing only. > > Pootle 2.2-alpha1 has the same dependencies as Pootle 2.1 but is best > tested with the latest version of Translate Toolkit (1.8.1) and > the latest version of Django (1.2.3). > > Do not install this alpha using setup.py, just run from checkout as > explained in > http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/installation#running_from_checkout_or_archive > > Remember to report bugs @ http://bugs.locamotion.org/ and to send love > to Julen and Igor here. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly > upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move > off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, > use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus > Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Translate-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
