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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Managing translations and dealing with translators – and there are probably at least 15 time wasters to every finished translation – has become a time intensive chore.

I know there is a public site where translators can work on projects (although for the life of me I can't now find the link to it) but I guess I am looking for ideas on a way to make this process smoother. perhaps looking for a web-based, open-source system that handles this that we could put up on the dev machine.

Or any other ideas…. Anything at all!

And it is not too early to start thinking about V4.1 as far as infrastructure goes.

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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afraid not at present…  never did any translation stuff before this…  will ponder and do some research, time permitting…

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

OK – getting nowhere with this – my own searches have been fruitless so far. One thing is for sure though – I am not going to handle the translation issue as has been done to date – it is just too time consuming. So… it is getting a little urgent as 4.1 PO friles really need to go out very soon – it is already late in terms of expecting anyone to complete a translation by the time we want to hit a beta.

My ideal system would be a separate OS web application that acts as a sort of library. Anyone could 'check out' a specific PO file which would then become 'locked'. Anyone else wishing to work on it would be able to send a contact message to the current 'holder' of the file who could (a) accept their help or (b) re-assign ownership to them.

The conditions of holding a PO file would be that your name is public and your email address held for such contacts.

I know there are currently only a couple of people who can read these threads but (a) does anyone know of a third party web application that approxmates this requirement? Or (b) does anyone know of a WP plugin that may suffice?

In all probablity this will end up being self written. I am OK with that and can obviously do it – but time is running short and I am not prepared to go to beta of 4.1 until we have at least something in place.

So all and any ideas are welcome…

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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svn can sort of do what you are looking for…  

the project can be set to lock a project/dir/file when checked out… then no one else can checkout/modify/commit files except for the person with the lock…  only the person with the lock can relinquish the lock (think admins can remove it)…

dont think it can do the display of name and email as you wish though…

not familiar with another app or wp plugin that does this either…  can certainly take a troll through the wp plugin repo tonight and see if anything pops up…

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

I thought about svn but then you are asking very non-techie people to install an svn client and, as you say – it only performs half of the requirement anyway.

I have done some searches on the WP plugin site and not found anything yet but am still looking.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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agree on the svn part…  but it was the closest thing I know of…