Welcome to the new Pootle 2.5.0-rc1¶

User Experience¶

We undertook a major UI rework – we now have a clean new translation interface, and overview page.

In the editor:

• We follow a new approach when you edit translations, you will see a list of units that meet some criterion.
• Translation Memory is displayed for the current unit – results are from the Amagama server.
• Filters are easily accessible while you translate, so you can quickly change these within the translation interface.
• Context rows are provided in the translation interface when you are filtering and these can be hidden or expanded.
• A timeline is provided for a unit. This provides a history of the changes in translation text, state changes, translator and dates of changes.
• Gravatars give credit to translators and suggesters.

In the overview page:

• The overview page allows you to drill down into certain types of units matching a translation state or with an error.
• It is now easier to see what work needs attentions, as we highlight next actions for your project.
• With editable project and language descriptions you can supply description for projects. These are editable using Markdown, reStructured or HTML.
• News alerts can now be sent via email to project participants.
• The overview page provides an expanded checks page that highlights all failing checks.
• Checks are classified into categories so that more urgent ones are highlighted to translators

Version Control¶

• Update the whole project at once avoiding slow file by file updates
• A separate VCS_DIRECTORY for VCS checkout is where Pootle now does all VC related work – this ensures that we can work well with DVCS like Git.
• Detect new and removed files after a VCS update
• Management commands for VCS actions [Stuart Prescott]
• Add new files to VCS after updating from templates

Commands¶

• list_languages
• list_projects
• latest_change_id
• –modified-since flag for update_stores and sync_stores
• commit_to_vcs
• update_from_vcs

Infrastructure¶

• All documentation is now on Read The Docs
• We have a new website for Pootle
• We’re using Travis for Continuous Integration
• All our code is now on Github

...and of course, loads of bugs where fixed