Translation of properties files

[Ian Young]

> On 7 Oct 2015, at 09:20, Lukas Hämmerle <lukas.haemmerle at switch.ch> wrote:
> 
> Ok, it has been a while (vacation and other things happened) but I had a
> closer look at poeditor.com and zanata.com.

Thanks, Lukas. I had this on my list to catch up to, so thanks for beating me to it.

> But given that only few (skilled) people would use it to translate the
> strings for their language, these probably are not so much of a problem.

I think that sounds reasonable, at least for now.

> If others (e.g. the Shibboleth team) would like to give it a try too:
> * Go to https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/
> * Sign Up to get an account/log in with social ID, then send me your
> account details and I'll make you a maintainer
> * Start translating on
>  https://translate.zanata.org/zanata/project/view/shib-idpv3-translations

I'll do this today. I'd expect other members of the team will want to come in as well.

> If the Shibboleth team is ok with this, I would create a page on the
> wiki providing the details on how others can contribute and translate
> the strings.

That would be great!

> Assuming there willbe some translations of the IdP properties available
> at some point, the question is if they would be:
> * bundled in the Shib IdP
> * offered via the Shib web page in a separate package
> * offered by federation operators that might want to brand them/adapt
> them further for local use
> 
> Any comments from the Shibboleth team on this?

Good topic for discussion. To start, though, do you see those as exclusive options, or is it possible for us to ship a baseline set that is overridden by deployers?

    -- Ian




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