Existing translation platforms
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Rosetta
Rosetta is the official translation platform for the Ubuntu project. I has a rich feature set and a huge community of translators. It is used for translating Open Source and Free Software.
Still it has a few drawbacks:
- The platform itself is not Open Source.
- According to their own statistics the current amount of translations hosted by Rosetta lies at about 733,000 strings for all projects together. A hypothetical integration of the translation of perl’s core documentation alone could easily double that (please see the according Statistics page for details).
- no review feature:
translations done in Rosetta can be translated by “anyone”, even if they do not have a clue. - no QA:
since there is no way to review the translations within Rosetta, maintainers of a specific language version would have to wait for it to be finished
Pootle
Pootle is another “major player” in the world of translation platforms. Being written in Python it used to translate applications like OpenOfficeOrg and Mozilla.
Pootle does not use a database – thus it is slow.
TransDict
TransDict is written in Perl.
