GSoC 2010/Projects/transifex-mobile

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Transifex mobile - GSoC 2010 Project

Status updates for the project can be found on the blog: http://v6sa.wordpress.com/category/gsoc/

Project summary

This is Google Summer of Code 2010 project which attempts to implement a translation application including heavy integration with Transifex.net web service and offline working support.

Progress

Since Transifex guys are a bit behind with their schedule for string-level API, I just used HTTP requests and regular expression matching to fetch the information I need. Current implementation works with Transifex.net deployment.

  • Logging into Transifex, session management, CSRF tokens - done
  • Browsing projects/components/files/languages - basically done
  • Pulling PO-files, storing them locally, pushing PO-files back to server - done
  • Editing PO-files (via polib), Google Translate, update PO-file metainfo - done
  • Opening and saving local PO-files - done
  • Transifex file locking - almost done
  • Qt4 models, views, threading, dialogs - done, but need improvement

Progress since midterm evaluation:

  • Better icons so they would fit in better with N900
  • Clean up menus, for example "Exit" is unneccessary
  • Better undo capabilities, at least allow reverting to original string once in string editor window
  • Improve locking logic, for example "Forget changes" upon closing the file should unlock the file
  • Show translation completeness (percentage in PO file list)
  • Check internet connectivity

To-do

  • Do caching properly so after pulling files user could edit them offline
  • Add support for projects with multiple files for same language
  • Better error checking: if locking fails, if file is not in utf8
  • Pushing and locking in background
  • Make Transifex interface pluggable so string-level API could be dropped in easily afterwards.
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