[Qgis-psc] Transifex and translation platform alternatives

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

RABBIT HOLE WARNING

So I have been looking over the options we have for doing live translations
via transifex or other platforms. I discovered here:

https://docs.transifex.com/projects/open-source-project

that we are not really (i.e. not at all) meeting the criteria of Transifex
any more. Particularly this one:

"Transifex offers an Open Source Program to Open Source projects that have *no
funding, revenue, and/or commercialization model*. The intent is to support
*small* and independent Open Source projects."

I think we should address this and either a) pay to use transifex or b)
look into using an open source alternative like pontoon (
https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/). Pontoon looks great and seems to
provide quite similar capabilities for the current workflows we have. The
gotcha seems to be they really try to nudge you to deploying on heroku
which is yet more managed infrastructure.

Another thing we are wondering is if we can find a system that lets you do
live translations like transifex does (we don't currently use the feature
but it would let us separate parts of the web site into something more
dynamically updatable via a CMS).

So my questions are:

* what do we do about transifex terms and conditions?
* has anyone looked at alternatives before and come up with a good system?
* is there any interest in us hosting our own pontoon instance?

Regards

Tim



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