Re: [phpList-developers] [Phplist-developers] change in phpList translation, call for language moderators

Yes, sorry. It's running on my cable connection at home, and my ISP has
been a bit flakey recently.

Also, it appears that registration doesn't work, which is a bit of a
pain. I'll get working to fix that.

Michiel

On 23/01/12 04:29, Thomas Winteler wrote:
> Good Morning Michiel
>
> Wanted to connect to http://translate.phplist.com, but can't reach the
> site.
>
>
> Kind regards from Switzerland
> thomi
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> On 01/20/2012 07:56 PM, Michiel Dethmers wrote:
>
> > Hello phpList translators (and I'm cc-ing developers as well).
>
> > I've made some changes in the way phpList is translated. It's not
> > entirely finished yet, but it's almost there.
>
> > I researched a bit how other projects do it, and they tend to use
> > the GNU "gettext" system.
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html
>
> > Now, in certain places phpList wasn't doing this very well, and
> > instead of having the full original english text, it would have
> > something like "explanation" as the tag and then the actual
> > explanation in the translation. I've been going through the code,
> > and have tried to update that, leaving the existing translations
> > intact, but I may not have managed everywhere.
>
> > Anyway, the nice thing about gettext, is that there are some
> > community tools for it. Particularly a system called "pootle",
> > which allows anyone to contribute to the translations. I've set it
> > up, and filled in the existing translations as much as I could on
> > http://translate.phplist.com
>
> > As you are probably aware, phpList has three areas of translation.
> > The "application strings", the "help" and the "info". The above
> > system is only for the strings in the application.
>
> > Now, it would be nice if we can get a person per language who would
> > be that language's moderator. Then I can add code in phpList to
> > encourage others to contribute, but one person per language should
> > have the final say on the final translation. The pootle system
> > works like that, where I can assign moderation rights to
> > individuals.
>
> > By the way, the pootle system is not running entirely as desired.
> > In certain places you may get redirected to http://localhost:8080
> > in which case you need to replace that with
> > http://translate.phplist.com. I've asked on the pootle list how to
> > fix that.
>
> > So, the main call on this email is to ask people to sign up to
> > http://translate.phplist.com and let me know what language they
> > want to moderate.
>
> > By the way, as gettext is not always available, I will probably
> > make a system that takes these translations and puts them back in
> > the code in the way that phpList likes them, which is much more
> > portable across systems. But the pootle system should be a good
> > step forward to be able to quickly translate texts that
> > continuously change with a team of people who can contribute to
> > it.
>
>
> > Michiel
>

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Michiel Dethmers
michiel <at> phplist.com
http://www.phplist.com
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