[josm-dev] JOSM Translations

[Lars Kruse]

Hi,


Frederik Ramm <frederik at ...> writes:

> But does this change not mean that in the future, everyone who wants to 
> translate something needs an account on JOSM SVN? Is that desirable?

This could be either solved by using launchpad (as mentioned before) or by using
a pootle[1] server.

Pootle is a translation web interface similar to launchpad. Some advantages are:

1) automatic synchronization with a subversion repository (instead of manual
down/uploads and update/commit in launchpad)
2) various permission levels (suggest, review, translate, commit, ...)
3) it is free software

If anyone would like to test pootle for the josm translations, then I would
volunteer to set this up on a pootle server[2], that I am administrating.
This would not collide with manual svn uploads of pootle files - it would be
just an alternative path with a lower participation threshold for translators.

regards,
Lars


[1] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle
[2] http://translate.systemausfall.org