On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David... > > Would you please elaborate on what kind of agreement CS has with > Transifex ? The loclaized content you get from their service is it licensed > some how ? If yes what kind of license they use ?
We don't really have any agreement in place with Transifex/Indifex. To be a bit more clear: Transifex is open source software for localization (analogous to pootle). Indifex (a company that's the prime sponsor of work on Transifex) provides free open source project l10n hosting at http://transifex.net - and that's what we've made use of. (Much like Fedora, Mozilla, and a scores of other open source projects do.) The benefit to staying with transifex IMO is: * Zero effort on ASF infra to maintain - Transifex maintains it all, and does so for free * It's a format/process already familiar to our existing l10n contributors. * Zero effort on CS folks to migrate (Though I expect that would be trivial.) The potential downsides I see: It's not hosted on ASF hardware. (Though the only projects that seem to use translate.a.o, are svn, jmeter, and AOO, so perhaps they are doing so elsewhere as well) So current problems with Transifex, are that we have it locked down pretty tight, essentially Citrix required a signed CLA before we'd allow an account with access to work on l10n. That's clearly not a blocker here. Also, we had to note that CS was a copyleft project and thus folks couldn't freely reuse our work and vice-versa (Transifex will automagically translate things) Finally, we still have 2.2.x resources there that would need to be cleaned out I suppose. --David
