Re: Translations and Transifex

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 06:52:33AM +0200, Szabó Gergely wrote:
> > https://www.transifex.com/pricing/
> >
> > Open source projects
> >
> > Crowdsource translations for your Open Source project for free on Transifex with no word count limits.
> There may be a slight difference between GitHub, hosting opens
> source projects for free and, BTW, proprietary ones for money, and
> Transifex, where you can find the free hosting of open source in the
> small print, if you look long enough.
>
> I used to maintain the Hungarian translation for a while, during the
> transition to Transifex and, honestly, I could not really grasp,
> what was so difficult with the gettext workflow.
>
> - git pull
> - do some gettext magic
> - edit hu.po with VIM
> - make and test
> - git commit
> - git push
>
> Transifex' statistics are very nice, but editing stuff in a browser,
> and managing access rights of volunteers was just an added pain in
> the backside. So I passed it on to named volunteers. I think.
>
> But I may be wrong and stuck in the stone age. If it attracted more
> translators, Transifex was probably the right thing to do.
>
> Gergely

I totally agree,

but exec s/VIM/emacs/g ;-)

emacs po-mode is simply wonderful and makes me much more productive.

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Marco Ciampa

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