How to help translate OpenGoo
OpenGoo, as you know, is open source software and is the product of the joint effort of all members in the community. People from all over the world are constantly helping in many aspects to improve OpenGoo, and in return the community receives a better product, at no cost and free to use. One of those aspects is translations, which allows OpenGoo to reach a wider audience. For this we need your help
If you are using OpenGoo and there's no translation for your native language you can make OpenGoo accessible to many more people by translating it into your language. First you should try to get in contact with other users that speak your language, because maybe someone has already started working on translations, or you may find someone else willing to help you and save you some work. You can do this on the forum dedicated to your language in the OpenGoo forums. If there isn't already a forum for your language you can request one to be created in the
Other languages forum.
In every language's forum there will be a post entitled
Official translation to <language>. This post is where official translation files will be put for download by users. If you make a new translation for a language or update an existing translation you should upload it to that thread. The OpenGoo team will be in charge of maintaining the latest translation files in the first post of that thread.
To make all this process more efficient there will be one responsible user for each language. This
official translator will have to validate changes made to the translation files before they make it into an OpenGoo release, and will coordinate translation efforts among users willing to help. The official translator of each language will be specified in the "official translation" thread mentioned before. If there isn't an official translator for your language you can apply to be one by writing a post in the "official translation" thread for your language saying that you wish to be the official translator. If there aren't any other applicants after 7 days you will be selected the official translator. If there is more than one applicant a poll will be held on your language's forum. Before applying keep in mind that being the official translator will require some attention from you, especially near release dates. You can quit being the official translator at any time though, no hard feelings
.
You can read instructions on how to translate OpenGoo
here.
If you have any doubts about this procedure you can ask on this thread.
Thanks for your help!
