Joomla! Documentation™

The Translation Tools Working Group is starting point of a new working team that wants to give answer to a specific goal stablished by the Joomla Production Leadership Team in 2013 (see http://developer.joomla.org/news/74-production-goals-for-2013.html):

Goal #5: Improve processes in Translating the Joomla Software and support the enhancement of the Joomla CMS multilingual system.

Specifically to one of its targets

5.2: Halve the dedicated time needed by a Translation Team member to provide a language package for Joomla. In agreement with the Translation Team, dedicate resources on improving processes and tools to automate the creation of translation packages and uploading them to the Joomla Languages Server.

Coordinators & PLT Contact

• Coordinator: Javier Gómez
• PLT Contact: Javier Gómez

Announcements

Non announces have been published yet

External resources

• Ideas for translate.joomla.org
• forked com_localise
• how a language git repo could look like

Communications

Primary communications channel is the an internal Skype chat. If you are interested in helping, please contact the PLT coordinator.

Roadmap

The current plan is to focus on fixing outstanding issues for the 3.x series on com_localise. In parallel with that we should start to look at more extensive changes to the workflows of the Translation Teams incorporating Git (and removing JoomlaCode) and possibly other tools that makes translating easier.

Meetings

• 9 Apr 2014: meeting with Translation Teams Coordinator (Jean Marie) to request needs for com_localise