[Scummvm-devel] Transifex

[Max Horn]

Hi there,

today I discovered by chance a project called "Transifex" <http://www.transifex.net/>

To quote the Wikipedia entry:

> Transifex is an open source platform for localization. It is a service offering users with an easy-to-use interface to submit translations to various projects hosted on a number of hosting platform types.


Apparently this grew out of a GSoC project, by the way ... :).

Anyway, one can register a project with this service, and then hook up source repositories. It then grabs existing translations (.po files) from the repository. It can then display statics about existing translations. 

The cool part is, though, when you enable "submissions". Then, anybody (resp. people to whom you have granted the right) can edit an existing translation, and submit the result. In the simplest case this happens by email. But it is possible to integrate this directly with the repository (works with SF.net, github and others). I'll not bother you with the details here. 

Anyway, I registered a ScummVM project to play with this. Submissions currently are emailed to me. Give it a spin:

  <http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/scummvm/>

If this turns out to be useful and people like it, we could official make use of it.


Cheers,
Max