[Qgis-tr] linguist vs. transifex in GUI translation

[Jacob Overgaard Madsen]

Hi Werner

I've started using CrowdIn for another translation project (CyanogenMod).
They tested Transifex but had Unicode issues, so they moved to CrowdIn
instead. Would this be an option?

Jacob


2014-04-16 10:04 GMT+02:00 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:

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> Dear Translators!
>
> During the last Codesprint I took the time for a few Discussions with
> developers and users and took a look on transifex.
>
> I decided to make a TEST PHASE for transifex:
>
> Short conclusion:
> You can EITHER use transifex OR linguist with the direct qgis_*.ts file.
> There is currently no fast/reasonable way to merge them both.
>
> Longer story:
> The current way of translations is to checkout the source from github
> (or download only the qgis_**.ts file of your language and translate
> it with linguist.
>
> With Linguist this has a few benefits:
> * If you checked out the source and probably compiled QGIS on your own
> you will see the "environment" of the string you are currently
> translating and will have a better feeling if the strings will fit or not.
> * You can easily work offline
>
> Transifex:
> * Is easier to handle for beginners
> * Is Web based with the possibility to download the file (but that
> will lock it for other users)
>
> We tried a lot of things to combine these two possibilities but the
> merge was always problematic.
>
> So I am going to leave it to the language coordinators (of a team) or
> if there is only one person translating to the translator if he wants
> to choose either linguist and the qgis_**.ts file _OR_ webbased transifex.
>
> Remember there is only ONE source that can be included into QGIS.
>
> For all language-coordinators I only want to know which way you choose
> so that I can make a list which translation is coming from which
> source before a release.
>
> (direct translation in linguist means less work for me :) - with
> transifex I will download the "finished" file and integrate it into
> QGIS Source.
>
> I will "clean" the transifex page soon to only include the languages
> that decided to translate with transifex.
>
> So lets test if we can integrate transifex this way.
>
> Please bear in mind that whenever you choose one translation type the
> OTHER one will be overruled by your decision.
>
> If you decide to use transifex I can update the language to the very
> latest state from github.
>
> I need some volunteers to test! :)
> Let's hope it will work the way we want it.
>
> thanks a lot for all your effort in translation!
>
> kind regards
> Werner
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