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

amzans 8y 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.
- kapilvt 8y 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 8y 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/ 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!

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.

kapilvt 8y 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 8y 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/ 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!