CALL FOR NEW TRANSLATIONS! AtoM 2.1 Release

[Dan Gillean]

Greetings AtoM Community!

We're hard at work finalizing our 2.1 Release for AtoM, which we hope to release by the end of September 2014. Would you like to help us translate AtoM's interface into your language? Or update our existing translations for all the new strings that have been added in 2.1? Now's the time to help out!

We will be packaging the 2.1 Release on September 22 - this means that all translations should be submitted to Transifex by Friday September 19, 2014 for inclusion in the 2.1 release.

We know that's not a lot of time! So don't worry: start on your translations now. In about 1-2 months, we will prepare a 2.1.1 release that includes bug fixes and translation updates - so you can continue working on your translations after the 19th of September, and they will be merged into the 2.1.1 release in another month or two.


TRANSLATORS: Once you log into Transifex and navigate to the AtoM Project, Click on the "Resources" tab - you will see that there is now an "AtoM 2.1" Resource available. Click on it to access the strings available for translation:

I've copied our 2.0 announcement about the new translation process using Transifex below - here are a few other helpful links:

• Transifex homepage: https://www.transifex.com/
• Transifex documentation: http://docs.transifex.com/
• AtoM project in Transifex : https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/atom/
• AtoM instructions on Using Transifex: http://www.accesstomemory.org/community/translate

If you have any questions, let us know on this thread, or feel free to contact us off-list!

We are pleased to announce a new process for creating and accepting translations of the AtoM interface.

In an effort to make the process of translating the AtoM interface more efficient, Artefactual Systems has started using Transifex, a web application to support dynamic publication of content from multiple sources. This means that more than one translator can contribute translated strings, making the process faster and easier, and enabling Artefactual Systems to publish translations more often.

We have posted instructions explaining how to:

1. Sign Up for an Account with Transifex

2. Join the AtoM Project

3. Join a Team

4. Use the Translation Editor

5. Receive Notification Updates

Please follow this link to read the instructions: www.accesstomemory.org/community/translate

Your participation in translating the AtoM 2.1 interface is greatly appreciated! If you have any questions about using Transifex, or about AtoM 2.1, please feel free to post on this thread, or contact our AtoM Community Product Managers: Dan Gillean <d...@artefactual.com> and Sarah Romkey <sro...@artefactual.com>.

Cheers,

Dan Gillean, MAS, MLIS
AtoM Product Manager / Systems Analyst,
Artefactual Systems, Inc.
604-527-2056

@accesstomemory

[Dan Gillean]

Check out the progress - we're seeing active submissions on new strings in AtoM 2.1 for Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, and Slovenian!

Here's where each project is at in terms of translating all available strings in AtoM 2.1. Is our application being translated into your language? Want to help us? See the previous post for details on how, or go to www.accesstomemory.org/community/translate

It only takes a moment to create a user account at Transifex! Send a request to translate AtoM into your language, and once we approve it, you can use Transifex's easy, online interface to translate strings from English into your language.

Thank you to all volunteers who have been helping us with this project!

Regards,

[Dan Gillean]

As a quick update to our translators:

You may have heard that we will be making a 2.1.1 Security upgrade release available next week (January 28, 10am Pacific) - more details in this post. While we strongly urge everyone to upgrade, the 2.1.1 release will NOT have new translation files from Transifex included in it. However, to address this, we will be making a 2.1.2 translations-only release immediately after. Any changes made in the 2.1 project in Transifex on or before Friday, January 30, 2015, will be included - so you have 10 days to make any last-minute edits or updates if you'd like! The 2.1.2 translation release will be available on February 9th, 2015.

• More details: here
• Instructions on using Transifex: here
• Original security release announcement: here

[Dan Gillean]

One more quick update for Translators and anyone waiting for the 2.1.2 translation release:

We previously announced that this would be made available on February 9th. It turns out that this date is a statutory holiday in Canada where we are based - consequently, 2.1.2 will be released on Tuesday, February 10th instead. A separate release announcement will be made in a new thread on that day, and the tarball will be available via our Downloads page.

Regards,

Dan Gillean, MAS, MLIS
AtoM Product Manager / Systems Analyst,
Artefactual Systems, Inc.
604-527-2056

@accesstomemory