Getting Wine's PO files on Launchpad

[Francois Gouget]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Austin English wrote:
[...]
> There's at least one other option:
> http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html

It does not look like they make it possible to translate online. They 
seem to be more like a repository for PO files. So it seems less 
translator friendly and not as 'modern' as Launchpad.

The upside is that it does not look like they try to automatically 
suggest translations from other projects so there may be less copyright 
issues from this side. However the web site is not clear on copyright 
issues, except for pushing translators to disclaim the copyright on 
their work.

http://translationproject.org/html/whydisclaim.html

They also strongly discourage projects from accepting translations from 
other sources that the translation project. I don't think we want to 
introduce such a limitation in Wine so if their translators share that 
point of view it could cause a clash.

http://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html


But Launchpage is certainly not the only option. We could set up our own 
Pootle server for instance.

http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/features

A number of projects do so.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/live_servers

An advantage is that we would be in control of the policies and 
copyright management. The drawback is that it requires more effort for 
translators as they would have to create yet another account just for 
Wine.


All these options are also not necessarily mutually exclusive either 
(though it raises coordination issues if a given language is worked 
on on two sites).

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