Translation of messages in Shibboleth IdP 5

[Jan Oppolzer]

Hi Lukas and all,

I don’t care about a service used for keeping translations up to date. Even a GitHub repository as Davide suggested works for me, although Zanata or a similar application is quite helpful.

Best regards,
Jan

> On 21. 11. 2023, at 14:24, Davide Vaghetti <davide.vaghetti at garr.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lukas, all,
> 
> first of all thanks for taking care.
> 
> My 2 cents are that I think it is worth trying the tool, but I would already set up a simple plan B: if the tool fails somehow, we could just set up a simple github repository with all the .po files and a template.
> 
> Best,
> Davide
> 
> On 21/11/23 13:55, Lukas Hämmerle wrote:
>> Hi Scott (and Shibboleth translators)
>> On 13.09.23 14:35, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>>>> @Scott: Would crowdin.com be something that the Shibboleth project would be willing to use and would the Shibboleth project meet the
>>>> 9 requirements listed here?
>>> 
>>> We weren't really involved in setting anything up to this point
>>> (apart from this mailing list obviously).
>> The "setting up" part could be outsourced like for Zanata. I would be happy to help there. That is after some initialization done by the Shibboleth project, which is required by crowdin.com
>>> Strictly speaking, at least 2 of those requirements wouldn't be met
>>> (there are people who build commercial products on our code and we
>>> don’t have a "NEWS" section or even a real web site that is managed
>>> by the project (the www site is for the consortium). I doubt they
>>> would care all that much, they just want publicity from use of their
>>> product.
>> I suspect their evaluation of these points would not be that strict. Certainly worth a try if people think this is worth a try.
>>>> Or does the project have other ideas how translation could be
>>>> managed?
>>> 
>>> I have no experience in it at all, none of these tools are familiar
>>> to me.
>> Ok. Well, as native English speaker i18n is probably not your top priority ;-) So, no surpise there.
>>> If it's somethiing you want to use, I can do it, but I have to create
>>> an account, etc., so I don't want to take the time unless it's
>>> something people are going to use.
>> What do the Shibboleth translators think? Is it worth setting up a new translation service as successor to Zanata, which is no longer maintained? Does your federation use the default Shibboleth translation files or distribute a localized translation package?
>> These are btw. the languages for which translations were created for the   Shibboleth IdP be the following honorable people:
>> cs - Czech
>> ----------
>> * Jan Oppolzer, CESNET, CZ
>> * Jan Tomášek, CESNET, CZ
>> de - German
>> -----------
>> * Martin Haase, DAASI, DE
>> * Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCH, CH
>> * Thomas Lenggenhager, SWITCH, CH
>> de_CH - German
>> --------------
>> * Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCH, CH
>> * Thomas Lenggenhager, SWITCH, CH
>> es - Spanish
>> ------------
>> * Emilio Penna, Universidad de la República, UY
>> fr - French
>> -----------
>> * Anass Chabli, RENATER, FR
>> * Etienne Dysli-Metref, SWITCH, CH
>> * Mehdi Hached, RENATER, FR
>> * Olivier Salaün, RENATER, FR
>> gr - Greek
>> ----------
>> * Ioannis Kakavas, GRNET, GR
>> it - Italian
>> ------------
>> * Davide Vaghetti, GARR, IT
>> ja - Japanese
>> -------------
>> * Takeshi Nishimura, NII, JP
>> lt - Lithuanian
>> ---------------
>> * Andrius Kulbis, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), LT
>> pl - Polish
>> -----------
>> * Maja Gorecka-Wolniewicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, PL
>> pt-BR - Brazillian Portuguese
>> -----------------------------
>> * Gabriel Kwiecinski Antunes, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, BR
>> sv - Swedish
>> ------------
>> * Pål Axelsson, SWAMID, SE
>> tr - Turkish
>> ------------
>> * Fırat Koçak, İzmir Institute of Technology, TR
>> zh_CN - Chinese, Simplified
>> ---------------------------
>> * Donghua Li, ynu.edu.cn, CN
> 
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