Re: [jboss-l10n] JBoss Tools L10n - help wanted!

G'day, I've been working on some translation infrastructure for JBoss Tools. I'm pleased to report that we've already got some Japanese translations for JBoss Tools, courtesy of a contribution by Shinobu Nogami. Any help with reviewing, correcting, or completing these translations would be appreciated! Translations for other languages would be great too.

My build scripts for jbosstools-l10n use Tennera Ant-Gettext to convert between .properties files (ResourceBundles) in the Java source code and Gettext PO/POT files. A bit like Translate Toolkit's prop2po but with one important difference: an entire directory tree of properties files can be reduced to a single POT file (not a tree of POT files). I hope this will make life easier for translators, since dealing with hundreds of .properties files is hard enough in a good developer's IDE. From what I've seen, the open source translation editors just aren't that good at dealing with lots of small files efficiently. I'm not familiar with any commercial translation tools, but I don't think many of them would edit .properties files directly - they would convert to another file format, or a database). PO files have their flaws, but they're still a big improvement over .properties for L10n purposes, and they are what the Red Hat L10n team mostly uses in current translation workflows (as I understand it). Anyway, the POT templates for JBoss Tools 3.1, and also the Japanese PO files, are currently living in a Mercurial repository here: http://bitbucket.org/seanf/jbosstools-l10n/ (Obviously, that's not meant to be the permanent location! And I'm not married to Mercurial, though having a DVCS would be nice.) Ultimately, I suggest these particular translations should probably live somewhere like this: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jboss-l10n/jbosstools/3.1 [or maybe .../trunk] But where to host them is the subject of my other post... Sean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ jboss-l10n mailing list jboss-l10n(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-l10n