Web Based Translation Tool for Spicebird

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Translating Spicebird to your language just got much simpler. Simply head to BabelZilla.org, register an account and start translating the strings from the Spicebird section.

BabelZilla has a Web Translation System which shows English strings, string ids and asks input of translated string into a text field on a web page. Translators do not need to know the complex process of using scripts or understanding the syntax of various files.

Further, if Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Calendar translation already exists for your language, there are only about 300 strings in Spicebird itself left to be translated. This is considerably small effort. With Spicebird Beta 0.7 coming up soon, this is your chance.

Many thanks to the folks at BabelZilla, Jean Bernard (Goofy) and Jürgen (Fenian), for their tireless efforts to setup the system.

Update: Please read instructions on the localization page first.

Comments

German l18n team

Just wanted to state props to those two (?) german guys who've translated a lot of stuff already into German. Nice work!

Question!

So, are you gonna do a version por MAC OS?

Mac Version

We sure want to do one. But for reasons that are not technical it won't happen at least for Spicebird Beta 0.7 which is coming soon. Perhaps for Spicebird 1.0. Contributions to a Mac build are welcome :)

I'm not sure why didn't you

I'm not sure why didn't you just go with Launchpad's Rosetta - it sports a very clean UI, and additionally, provides suggestions for already translated strings in other open-source projects. Which makes things go a lot quicker...

Also use Launchpad

One could also use Launchpad if they wish to. It is up to the language team to choose to do offline translations or use a web based translation system like Babelzilla. If the language team decides, they could also do the translations on Launchpad.

Community

Its the community. BabelZilla has a good bunch of Mozilla extension developers working on translations.