General documentation regarding the Commotion translation process and how we plan to support French for Réseau Libre.

Tools

• String Extractor

  • URL: https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-translation-generator
  • Extracts the strings from the Commotion source code in order to generate .pot files that can be pushed to Transifex.com

• Transifex.com

  • URL: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/commotion-user-interface/
  • UI for translating the strings in the Commotion user interface (LUCI).

• Translated PO files:

  • URL: https://github.com/opentechinstitute/luci-i18n-commotion
  • Translations extracted from Transifex, archived in git for easier access.

Status

• Commotion 1.2 strings have not yet been pushed to Transifex (bgm - 2015-06-23)

Needs testing/fixing/documentation

• How do we include the translation files in the imagebuilder builds?
• How do we define the default language? (or select during the wizard?)