Thanks a Lotte! Transifex development in full motion!
I’m back from GUADEC 2009 (a blog post dedicated to this will be posted soon, I promise) and am now trying to get caught up with everything that has happened at work and projects I follow. Manage to spend some time today to check what’s new with the Transifex project and am very impressed with the direction it is going.
What you see above is the new tool/feature being added for inline, online translation of projects, codenamed Lotte! In other words, project maintainers can allow translators to do their translations using the web as its editor! Off course you can still do uploads of translated files as before.
If you want to play with the latest Transifex code, I’ve just published some development images for the Transifex Appliance. Choose from ISO, VMware or EC2 images, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. Your appliances can be updated using its own web based management system by pointing your browser to the appliance’s IP using port 8003 with the credentials admin and password. Make sure to change the password once you’ve successfully logged in.
This release is based on the development branch of Transifex. A couple of projects have already been created for you to play with. Log in using either guest/guest or editor/editor as your user name and password combination and tinker to your heart’s content!
Make sure to read the documentation and file issues/send your feedback to the developers.
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July 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
May you post about the difference between rosetta and transfix, what’s about?
Cheers.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hi Andre’, there are a few differences between these two systems, some technological, others a bit more fundamental in regards to being free and operating directly with upstream projects. I will focus on the later. Basically, Transifex works directly with the upstream project and all transactions are automatically applied to the upstream code line. There are also notifications for all transactions (such as those you get from Damned Lies) and the abiity to “lock” a file for translations… If anything, the fact that your work goes directly to upstream projects is a pretty good reason to use it!
Cheers,
Og
August 14th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Fantastic new feature … exactly what I was waiting for in order to migrate from Launchpad. Any idea when this will be rolled out to the transifex.net service?
August 14th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Good news Nicolas! Lotte and several other new features that make up the next version of Transifex 0.7 should be released fairly soon. Just yesterday a Release Candidate 2 was released, which means that either an Alpha or a final version will be released really soon. In the meantime, if you want to play with the latest code, I have a Transifex Appliance based on latest development code that gets updated fairly often that you could use, so just let me know.
Cheers,
Og