BwTransifex is an extension to Joomla!®, since version 4, which fetches the newest translations from transifex.com and creates language packages from these files, which may be installed at Joomla!®.
BwTransifex is an extension to Joomla!®, made for developers, which write extensions for Joomla!®.
As a developer for Joomla!® extensions the problems around multi-language extensions are not unknown. Our users have supplied translations for our extensions, by mail, at the forum or provided otherwise. It is difficult to keep track, for both, translators and developers. How to manage language files which needs an update? How to inform the respective translators about the changes? How to deal with the temporary offset, if the extension is ready for release, but the translators are not ready with its work? How and when to provide these updated translations for download? How to synchronize multiple translators for one language?
Thanks to transifex.com this part of the problems belongs to the past. If You don't know transifex.com, then You should take a look straight away. Thanks to their online platform users may translate the source language files to each desired language. All works online, there is no need to download zip files to see how much is translated and what still needs a translation.
You update the source language files at transifex.com and it is immediately visible for the translators, which language strings have to be updated. This is an enormous facilitation for the translation process, because all happens online and is visible for all participants immediately. There is no need to exchange files with the translators, all runs at a central place.
transifex.com eases the work with translations enormously. But now there appears another problem: How to provide these translations for the users in a simple manner? Here comes BwTransifex into play.
Formerly You possibly have created an installation package of the extension, which contained all existing translations. That is okay, but translators naturally are some days behind…
That means, that one created an installation package, which contained premature translations. When a translation made progress, one had to create a new installation package and provide it.
BwTransifex is an extension for Joomla!®, which addresses exactly these problems.
The features of BwTransifex:
- BwTransifex fetches the newest translations from transifex.com and creates language packages from them, which my be installed at Joomla!®.
- BwTransifex creates language packages for all languages Joomla!® supports.
- BwTransifex creates language packages for any desired number of extensions of Joomla!®.
- BwTransifex provides the language packages for download at frontend as list or single projects.
- The access may be restricted with the view levels of Joomla!®.
- Updated language packages may be installed by Joomla!® update.
- The translation status of each language package, but also of single language files is displayed at frontend.
- You may invite users to contribute to the translation, links leads directly to the project at transifex.com.
You only have to pack the language files for the default language of Joomla!® (that is en-GB) with the installation package of the extension. All other works by installing language packages for this extension how it is known by Joomla!®.
You may install the installation package of BwTransifex by the installer of Joomla!® as usual.