Traduora is now open source

https://traduora.com

by amzans • 7 years ago

131 23 7 years ago

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LK83• 7 years ago

Does Traduroa use a workflow engine/library? Or did you develop your own?

kapilvt2• 7 years ago

How does it compare to something like Pootle (https://github.com/translate/pootle)?

amzans4• 7 years ago

I think Pootle is a great project with a (much) longer history than traduora and it's very rich in terms of editing features.

While traduora will have a lot of commonly used editing features, I'd like the focus to be on enabling small and medium teams to easily translate their projects without much overhead. That's where upcoming features like automatic translations come in handy as they provide a good "starting point" for a lot of cases or also for example the ability to deliver translations over the air to your apps/websites.

I'm convinced that in open sourcing traduora, it’s an effective way to make the best product possible, while growing a community and giving developers confidence to build on top of it as a platform.

kapilvt2• 7 years ago

Cool, awesome to see more opensource in this space. A long time ago (2009), I was launching the world digital library (wdl.org) had to deal with lots of content translations. I tried using Pootle (which also supports saas api translation as a starting point), but we ended up just using Transifex with consultants, because machine translations weren't good enough at the time. The world has changed :-)

scrollaway• 7 years ago

I used to (professionally) work on Pootle years ago. The critical difference: Pootle does not offer any hosted solution; we never gathered the devops skills to offer that at the time.

Today would be different but it's also a project with a massive amount of technical debt, I'm doubtful about its future.

Pootle does however offer a crapton of features and formats. Traduora lacks something as basic as pofile support.

All the best to the team, I'm very glad to see another open source alternative, especially one with SaaS backing it. The only other one is Localize (https://localizejs.com/), which is kinda awful and not actually fully open (not self-hostable).

Bit of a shame the git history is lost in the open sourcing though…

Edit: Oh… the SaaS portion is not open yet. Well, that's a massive opportunity lost.

PS: You should add postgres support!

pier255• 7 years ago

So this is like a platform where your translators work together and you keep track of all your translations?

If this is correct it seems like a super niche product. Very few companies directly employ translators or need a solution for keeping track of translations.

amzans4• 7 years ago

While traduora is also aimed at the use case you describe, the focus is on enabling small and medium teams to easily translate their projects without much overhead.

For example via automatic translations of your project or delivering translation updates over the air.

pier255• 7 years ago

So it's also an alternative to multilingual CMSs (but only for text)?

dwheeler• 7 years ago

There are lots of applications (including web applications) where translations for multiple human languages are needed. Seems useful.

arankine• 7 years ago

Absolutely not true that this is niche. Almost all international online saas or stores have embedded translation and copy teams.

pier255• 7 years ago

The ones I've seen first hand use services like One Hour Translation and then use whatever e-commerce solution to manage the translations (Magento, Shopify, Wordpress, etc).

It's probable big ones like Amazon do have their own translation teams, but generally speaking most companies (in any industry) rarely hire a translator directly and work with agencies.

My wife is a translator and works for a number of agencies. I see the projects she works on, and that even includes some very large companies like Facebook or Netflix.

tokai• 7 years ago

Great to see that it is actual FOSS (Affero GPLv3), and not some weird home-brewed 'open' license!

amzans4• 7 years ago

Thank you for the feedback. After a lot of thought I finally settled on AGPLv3 because it makes it easy for the users to use and benefit from any improvements developed by others.

I feel that it's the right way to do it. But I guess that only time will tell.

paulcarroty• 7 years ago

Very good choice.

raphinou• 7 years ago

Congrats for shipping this free software project!

I'll probably need such a tool in the future. This will be an option if by that time it supports gettext files (.po) as that's what I settled on ;-) (I'm surprised po files are not supported actually. I'm no expert of the field and might be very wrong, but I thought gettext was close to be the standard)

severine• 7 years ago

The roadmap includes: Apple Strings, PHP arrays, Microsoft Resources, Gettext (po), Android Resources (xml).

amzans4• 7 years ago

I've just added basic support for importing and exporting gettext files. If you end up trying it out let me know how did it go :)

mickael-kerjean• 7 years ago

That is awesome, I was trying to find something like this for an open source project I manage: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash Kudos to the author!

Traduora is now open source

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