Collaborative platform to translate apps, OS in other languages [released]
It would be nice to have something like Ubuntu has on Launchpad to translate applications and other parts of the OS in other languages. At the moment only few languages are supported, but with the collaboration of the community it should be doable to have a complete translation in more languages. I don't want to spend to much time now to give advices, details etc... I just would like to understand if the idea is possible or not.
EDIT (14/09/15) This is now on the Sailfishos.org Roadmap
Community instance of translation server Pootle
Good idea. That would take the load off devs shoulders, and give users who don't code a chance to contribute. In ownCloud we use Transifex and that works rather well.
Edit: And Transifex supports Qt Linguist .ts files.
Tanghus ( 2013-12-29 01:02:14 +0200 )editI'll just add there are already distributions using Transifex for all their translations, such as for example Fedora. :)
MartinK ( 2013-12-29 01:57:38 +0200 )editThumbs up for idea! I am sure there will be no oficial slovene translation but I am willing to participate. I know quite few people that rejected N9 because lack of localisation. Jolla is open (I hope so) and community can help here.
sponka ( 2013-12-29 07:53:07 +0200 )editHow to ensure that the community-created translations are of acceptable quality? Even if someone reviews and accepts each translated message, how to ensure that the reviewer can do his/her job at acceptable quality? Bad translations make the product look bad, they are a visible part of a product.
ln ( 2013-12-29 14:58:11 +0200 )edit@ln the community itself will review the translations. When it's ready Jolla may review it one last time before including it in the next release.
Andrea Grandi ( 2013-12-29 15:42:04 +0200 )edit