Pootle

​Pootle is used to allow translators to collaborate on both doing the initial translation & refining it once 'completed'.

Installation

​http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/pootle/en/stable-2.5.0/server/installation.html

Assuming a base Debian stable (6.x):

apt-get install -y bzip2 less unzip
apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-wsgi
apt-get install -y mysql-server python-mysqldb phpmyadmin mytop
apt-get install -y python-setuptools
apt-get install -y iso-codes

apt-get install -y gcc python-dev
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/translate/python-Levenshtein/0.10.1/python-Levenshtein-0.10.1.tar.bz2
tar jxvf python-Levenshtein-0.10.1.tar.bz2
cd python-Levenshtein-0.10.1
python setup.py install
cd ..

wget ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/python-memcached-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf python-memcached-1.51.tar.gz
cd python-memcached-1.51
python setup.py install
cd ..

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/translate/Translate%20Toolkit/1.10.0/translate-toolkit-1.10.0.tar.bz2
tar jxvf translate-toolkit-1.10.0.tar.bz2
cd translate-toolkit-1.10.0
python setup.py install
cd ..

wget --no-check-certificate -O Django-1.4.5.tar.gz https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.4.5/tarball/
tar zxvf Django-1.4.5.tar.gz
cd Django-1.4.5
python setup.py install
cd ..

# @ToDo: https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/

wget --no-check-certificate https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.3.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf pip-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd pip-1.3.1
python setup.py install
cd ..

pip install virtualenv
#virtualenv /var/www/pootle/env/
#source /var/www/pootle/env/bin/activate

pip install pootle

​http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/pootle/en/stable-2.5.0/server/web.html#apache-with-mod-wsgi

Usage

See UserGuidelines/Localisation#A.UsingPootle

Maintenance

When adding languages, use this resource to configure them properly:

• ​http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms

The script that Fran used to use to update files between Bzr & Pootle is:

• translate.cmd

If the script fails, check for the presence of a ` in a T("") - this causes the languages.py to reset the languages/* to default &/or stop web2py2po from working!

ToDo

• Link to the s3translate module within Sahana
  • Unfortunately it doesn't seem that we can easily automate the upload back to Pootle:
    • ​http://www.mail-archive.com/translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01187.html