Community localization

Other Notes

What do we need and from whom?

Nokia

• Money
• Integration of community translations into the official language selection dialog. Once a new language is installed it should be shown in the settings.
• On first start: Give a possibillity to install/download maemo community translations.
• If not: Show a message to tell users that there are community translations and where they can be found.
• Get existing translations to bootstrap system, create glossary etc.

Transifex

• Support for translation teams (Grouped by languages)
• Running (and open to Beta users) installation on maemo.transifex.net
• Support for roles (Owner, Coordinator, Translator, Reviewer, Developer
• Reviewing system
• Page to sign the lincence of the project
• Support for access rights on collections
• Maemo.org Karma support
• subscription/communication meachanims for getting notifcations about changes.
• Select date for upcoming release. Create calender to show projects close to a release
• Abillitiy to lock specific languages for certain projects. E.g. Mediaplayer/German
• SSO with maemo.org
• Support for project states: Started, Reviewd, Complete
• Translator credits in po files
• Automiatic glossary lookup
• Translation memory
• support for translation-toolkit to catch translation erros

Maemo.org

• System to create debian packages out of translations for closed applications
• Support for Transifex Karma
• SSO with transfex.net
• When creating a garage project give the project an option to also register with transifex.net
• Software to let the user choose a community language. Must set environment variables, etc. Or include it directly into the package.