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Welcome to the Haiku Translation Assistant

This website is designed to allow democratic, wiki-like translation of programs for Haiku. Anyone can provide translations and as many as they want. You can translate a few strings here and there, or you may translate an entire program all at once. You can help out by translating strings into your language. Just choose your language from the list to the right and choose a program to translate.

HTA is still a work in progress, so expect bugs. If you have questions, comments or suggestions about the HTA, e-mail the author.

Instructions

You may either translate whole programs or just translate one string at a time.

To modify an individual translation string — perhaps a particular phrase was mistranslated — find the program's catalog and find the string that needs a translation. You may then edit it.

If you are a language manager, you can login and approve translated strings. Once approved, the SVN maintainer knows that the string is ready to include in Haiku.

Reading the pie charts

The progress indicators that appear next to catalogs indicate how much work has been done on a particular catalog. Black indicates untranslated portions. Yellow means that a portion has been translated but hasn't yet been approved by a team leader. Green indicates an accepted portion, while red indicates a portion that needs revision.

Transition to Pootle

RQ is working on customizing Pootle, a translation tool used in a lot of opensource projects, for Haiku. In anticipation of this change over, I won't be making many improvements to this version of HTA. We're hoping this transition won't last long. In the meantime, use this version to do your translations. Everything will eventually wind up in SVN, so your work should be safe. (As always, no guarantees...)

Work in progress

  • Revisioning
  • Correct translations corrupted during import
  • Automatic catalog updates from Build-o'-Matic
  • Variant Redundancy Prevention (Partially completed)
  • Suggestions
  • Authentication/access control system
  • Full exporting
  • Comments
  • Stylesheet beautification (any help greatly appreciated!)