A six month report from Translate.org.za
You may remember that Mozilla made a grant to the team at Translate.org.za this past summer to help improve the translation tools that many of our localizers use to localize Firefox. One of the stipulations of that grant asked Translate to provide a mid-year report summarizing their progress. Many thanks to Friedel (the lead developer at the Translate Toolkit) who submitted it to me today.
Highlights include the following:
- Integrating with Mozilla’s code repository system, Mercurial
- Launching their offline editor Virtaal, which will allow localizers to work on translations when they are unable to access the Web
- Merging Verbatim work by clouserw and dschafer into their trunk. (Wil wrote a very thoughtful piece about the decisions Wil and Mozilla made before choosing to hack on Pootle and how it has gone since then.)
- Migrating to Django, a new web platform for Pootle that should make developer contributions in the future a bit easier
We hope to have two projects integrated into Verbatim by the end of this quarter so localizers can use the tool to translate the UI for both AMO (addons.mozilla.org) and SUMO (support.mozilla.com). This will happen due to the great work by Wil Clouser and the guys at Translate Toolkit.
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