GSoC Idea: i18n improvements (crowd-sourcing)

[jmiranda]

Overview

OpenBoxes is available in any language / locale. However, we’ve only had the opportunity to translate to French and some Spanish. We’d like to provide a customizable database-backed message source as well as a way to integrate with a translation crowd-sourcing technology like phraseapp.

Objectives

Provide runtime customizable translations using a database-backed i18n message source that can be optimized (cached). In addition, research and implement a crowd-sourcing solution to allow OpenBoxes to be translated into any language.

Knowledge

• Spring
• i18n / Localization
• Grails 3
• Translation Service (e.g. phraseapp, transifex)

Resources

• https://phrase.com/blog/posts/database-stored-messages-for-i18n-in-spring-boot/
• https://docs.transifex.com/localization-tips-workflows/crowdsourcing-translations
• https://discuss.openboxes.com/t/how-to-translate-the-ui-in-any-language/188/4

Mentors

• Justin Miranda
• Kelsey Nagel

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[jmiranda]

Timely endorsement. Thank you.

[comradekingu]

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