Installing B-Translator

l10n
#1

Hi,

I have tried to improve the installation instructions for
the project B-Translator:
https://github.com/dashohoxha/B-Translator

Could somebody try to install it and make sure that it can
be done properly?
Some familiarity with Drupal could be useful.

Thanks,
Dashamir

#2

What are your motivations about installing it, or could you give us some info about B-Translator ?

Thanks
Kind regards
Sophie

#3

More detailed info about the project can be found here:
https://github.com/dashohoxha/B-Translator/blob/master/docs/README.org

My motivation for trying to make easy its installation
is that I need help from other people for developing and
improving the project. However people cannot work on it
unless they can install and test it.

Regards,
Dashamir

#4

Hi Dashamir,

More detailed info about the project can be found here:
https://github.com/dashohoxha/B-Translator/blob/master/docs/README.org

My motivation for trying to make easy its installation
is that I need help from other people for developing and
improving the project. However people cannot work on it
unless they can install and test it.

Thanks for your answer. I was wondering why Pootle is not an option for you, I've read the readme but don't see what it would bring that Pootle doesn't offer to you already (but I didn't install the product).

Kind regards
Sophie

#5

This is a frequently asked question: why not Pootle?
How B-Translator is different from Pootle?

The answer is that Pootle is simply an online PO file
editor. With Pootle you cannot have more than one
translation for the same string, and you cannot get
feedback from people which translation is better.

The focus of B-Translator is not only about translating
but also about getting feedback from people. It is
about crowdsourcing translation/localization:
  * http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TCM7w11Ultk
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

Someone can claim that Pootle can be used for
crowdsourcing as well, but I think that it was not
built with this in mind, and B-Translator is an
attempt to do it better (or at least differently).

Can the approach taken by B-Translator work?
I believe it can.
Does it replace Pootle and other localization tools?
Not necessarily, it can integrate with them.

Kind regards,
Dashamir

#6

Dashohoxha,

You might want to talk to the folks at Pootle if you haven't done so
in a while. They are in the process of adding commenting and
discussion features to Pootle (even as we speak).

You should drop in on their IRC channel and talk to them about it.
They might be interested in your ideas and you might get a tighter
integration than you had ever imagined, by actually providing input to
their current work.

irc://freenode/pootle

Or reach out the the Pootle devel list

http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/developers/mailing_lists

I think it may be a better approach to getting your ideas put into
production than forking your own system. just something to consider.

cjl

#7

Hi Chris and Dashamir,

As a Pootle dev land LibreOffice contributor let me jump in and address some things:

* Pootle is a PO editor - those are its roots. Pootle exports to PO, the models in the tool have moved beyond that.
* Crowdsourcing features - we've had suggestions for a long time, for some clients we implemented the ability to vote against suggestions. For Mozilla we are integrating a historic view of changes and the ability to discuss translations.

I'm sure there are more that people would love to see implemented to more closely align to their needs when working with the crowd.

As Chris says pop into #pootle if you'd like.