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Hi Ryan,

Thanks for pointing me to TranslateWiki. I'm more than happy to add more tools to the comparison matrix to make sure we make the best choice!

I've updated the matrix:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqevw3Q-ErDUdFgzT3VNVXQxd095bFgzODRmajJDeVE

At a glance TranslateWiki falls somewhere in the middle, with my biggest concern being the recommended method for re-integrating the translation files into the origin repositories. Other issues stood out as well, but that one was the biggest.

As a reminder, the features listed there are not of equal weight, so having more "red" doesn't necessarily rule any solution out if it's "green" in critical areas another is lacking. If you think I've misjudged anything, feel free to let me know.

All the best,

    - Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Lane [mailto:rlane at wikimedia.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:09 PM
> To: Gabriel Hurley
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Translation and Internationalization in OpenStack
> 
> > Tools
> > ====
> >
> > I know people have strong feelings and concerns on which tools are best
> and which features matter most, so I've put together a comparison matrix.
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqevw3Q-
> ErDUdFgzT3VNVXQxd
> > 095bFgzODRmajJDeVE
> >
> > It features our current solution (Launchpad) and the top two contenders
> people have asked me to look at (Pootle and Transifex). The list of features
> for comparison contains the concerns voiced at the summit session, those
> voiced by the community to me, those voiced by the infrastructure team,
> and my own experience working on translations for other open source
> projects (such as Django).
> >
> > Having worked with all three tools, I would strongly suggest Transifex,
> particularly given that we as a community have to do almost no work to
> maintain it, it's the only tool that supports OpenStack as a "project hub" with
> shared teams and management, and it offers us a strong crowdsourced
> translation community.
> >
> 
> You should also consider translatewiki (translatewiki.org). It's used for a
> number of very large projects (MediaWiki and extensions used on Wikimedia
> sites, OpenStreetMap, etc), and it has a large and active translator
> community. For example, MediaWiki is very actively translated in 100
> languages, and has translation for roughly 350 languages total.
> 
> The translatewiki people are interested in hosting OpenStack since
> Wikimedia Foundation is using OpenStack products, and translatewiki cares
> deeply about our language support. In fact, they were the first people to
> complain about nova's broken utf8 support, which prompted us to push in
> fixes.
> 
> - Ryan