Please help translate the upcoming MegaGlest 3.7.0 - an easier, all new process

[tomreyn]

While there will be another beta before the 3.7.0 release, we need your help translating the game right now - in an all new process.

We've changed the translation process to make it easier for both you and us - you can now translate by just posting your translations to a website. 

If you're not already subscribed to our translations mailing list, please subscribe now.

All other info is available on yesterdays' post to this list.

Thank you!

[GunChleoc]

Thanks for putting this on Transifex, this makes thing a lot easier!  (although I still dream of .po-files... )

Is there a specific reason translations of the Megapack techtree are not accepted?

[Omega]

Is there a specific reason translations of the Megapack techtree are not accepted?

Are they not accepted, or do you just mean that they aren't on Transifex (at least, not yet).

[softcoder]

The current version of svn now integrates megaglest with the transifex website project for megaglest. Translators may test their work by going into the Options menu in mg, Click the Advanced Translation button (above the language listbox in the top right corner). This enables some transifex UI items at the bottom of the screen. Enter your Transifex username, password and the standard 2 character country code for your translation (in the main lng file it is defined in the following key:

;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
ISO639-1=zh

Once you have entered this information, click the download button to pull in your work into mg for testing. To remove these files (And revert to the normal language files that existed before your changes) click the delete language files button.

Thanks

[GunChleoc]

Thanks, this will speed up testing

ETA: The problem below has been solved, the problem was that the name for my language file changed.

The buttons for the Advanced Translation don't translate yet, although they are already in Transifex. You will need to get an updated english.lng as well (from the daily build or Transifex) for the English button labels to show up correctly.

ETA: I also get English hints for strings I have already translated. I take it this function is only for the main language file?

[tomreyn]

Thanks, this will speed up testing

The buttons for the Advanced Translation don't translate yet, although they are already in Transifex. You will need to get an updated english.lng as well (from the daily build or Transifex) for the English button labels to show up correctly.

Transifex should be auto-updating the English source files from SVN (every couple of minutes, I would think). Is there indication that this is not working?

ETA: I also get English hints for strings I have already translated. I take it this function is only for the main language file?

The Transifex download Softcoder implemented in the game downloads all resources from Transifex for the language you have set next to your Transifex credentials on the options screen (i.e. not just the main language file). They are stored in ~/.megaglest/data on Linux and %ApplicationData%\megaglest\data on Windows. Please check whether your translations are both still present on Transifex and whether they were downloaded to your computer and stored in these locations.

[tomreyn]

I've got a little update to make here. It turns out that the 3.7.0 beta2 Linux releases are missing HTTPS support, and so the Transifex integration cannot work with beta 2 on Linux. It does work on Windows, though.

Linux translators can, however, just use the snapshots we provide. Those consist of two archive files. The first one is the game data, which is the same for everyone. The second archive is available in two flavours, for 32 bit (i685) and for 64 bit (x86_64) Linux respectively.

• Game data (a 7-zip compressed archive, on Linux / POSIX systems use the p7zip package your distribution provides).
• 32 bit Linux build and 64 bit Linux build - get the latest version available.

Which flavour you need in the second step depends on the Linux variant you are running (which in itself depends on your computer hardware). To find out, run uname -m in a terminal window. It should either return something like i686, i586, i486 or i386, in which case you need the 32-bit variant. Or it will say x86_64 or amd64 in which case you need the 64 bit variant of MegaGlest.

[Zhook]

Hello!
I'm here again!
My ubuntu 10.04 was updated to xubuntu 12.04. And now I am ready to translate your wonderful game into Russian.(if it needs)
Starting download...

[tomreyn]

Congratulations on your Ubuntu upgrade/(re)install, Zhook. If you can work on Russian today this will be great, since the 10 day translation period ends in 7 hours. 89% of the russian translation are done, so this can be doable (if you have some time). If you don't have time now, please do it later, since we can still add your translations to the next but one release then. In the past, there had often (but not always) been bugfix releases a few days after the initial release (sadly often due to insufficient community support at testing before the original release).

[Zhook]

Can you wait only today? I had no time yesterday, but started translation.
Today I'll do it fully.

[tomreyn]

If you have subscribed to the translations mailing list or follow our posts to identi.ca / twitter / facebook you will know we have extended the deadline, including for you. Thanks for your support.

[Zhook]

Ok.
I did it! All text translated to 100%
I keept lenght of phrases and context, all must be ok. You can use it now.

But I can't download and install mg right now to test it in practice(some problems with my internet provider and dependences in ubuntu).

[GunChleoc]

Great, thanks!

[tomreyn]

Thanks Zhook, this makes the seventh complete translation (plus English). Testing would be great, though, so I'll be happy to help with your PC issues tomorrow on the chat (just ask for "tomreyn") if you could look into testing the russian translation as soon as it's fixed, too.

[Zhook]

Problems already fixed.
I downloaded svn.
Now it is compiling...
Then will test.

[Zhook]

Yesterday I tested new russian translation of mg in networking. It was final test. All is ok. You can use it.

[tomreyn]

Thank you, it's been committed.