The Translate Toolkit team are pleased to announce the availability of Pootle, an online translation and translation management system.
Pootle aims to help people translate software into their language with the minimum of fuss while also aiming to help simplify the translation process for software and translation maintainers.
Using Pootle is simple. Go to http://pootle.wordforge.org/register.html and create your translation account. You may translate online using the web interface or download files for translation using your existing translation tools.
Current translation maintainers should please contact us at:
to request that your language and software component be enabled on Pootle. You will then be able to manage your translation project through Pootle.
If you are a translator Pootle makes it easy to translate software without you having to learn the intricacies of the tools traditionally needed to translate Free and Open Source Software. But if you already use those translation tools Pootle is designed to enhance your experience and improve your performance.
For language maintainers the evolving feature set will allow you to target releases, monitor progress and manage your team.
Software maintainers will now find it easy to publish software for translation and retrieve the translations for inclusion in your next software release.
Pootle aims to improve and enhance the way you work.
The portal was developed by Translate.org.za through the Translate Toolkit community. The development was funded by the CATIA project with assistance from St James Software.
Pootle embodies the experience of the Translate.org.za project and other Free Software translation projects including KiLinux and KhmerOS. It builds on and extends the features of the existing Translate Toolkit.
Pootle is Free Software released under the GPL licence.
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Pootle is already used by various Translate.org.za translation teams and has worked well at translation events held in South Africa. We do however expect bugs to surface as more people begin to use the tool.
Please email bug reports and feature requests to the development mailing list translate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
On behalf of the Translate Toolkit team.
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Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@translate.org.za>
Translate.org.za
+27-12-460-1095
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