[wp-hackers] Plugins and themes localization

[Cátia Kitahara]

>
> Cátia, better handling of all aspects related to i18n is going into a
> project called GlotPress <http://glotpress.org>.
>

Scribu, as far as I know GlotPress is just a translation tool. I started
this subject at Polyglots list, but Zé suggested me this is the place to
have it.

I am not too sure of the benefits of listing which translations are
> available, as a specific section on the readme. Why? Because
> maintaining that information is just going to be another headache for
> plugin/theme authors, as the translations probably come in on a
> different cycle than the "normal" release cycle of the theme or
> plugin.
>

I see, Zé, but I don't think it's such a headache, the author just need to
list the localizations he/she is distributing with the package, if there are
localizations done after, they'll be added to the next release. Besides it's
not supposed to be mandatory, isn't it?


> I'd suggest simply indicating if it is internationalized or not, and
> on downloading you'd see which translations are available at that
> particular moment.


But the point of displaying these informations is to avoid the need of
downloanding the plugin/theme and to have these informations at hand.


> Maybe the information on which languages are
> available (at the time of that particular release) could simply be
> listed on the description section, as well as instructions for
> translators on where to send their language files, informally.
>

Or maybe on another section called "Localizations". At least for themes,
it's possible to search for the tag "translation ready".

We need to work towards a situation where the plugin developer does
> not need to get involved for translations to happen much like we have
> for the core of WordPress where the translation files are stored in
> separate svn and the translators have deployment tools available.
>

Peter, I don't know about plans for a plugin/themes localizations official
repository, and I don't know if that's the case.

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