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NetBeans TranslatedFiles Community Project

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The TranslatedFiles project is a community effort to localize NetBeans into languages other than English. How to join the project.

Introduction: These wiki pages may be used by the language teams as a collaboration space. For example, use it to document translation or testing processes and best practices; organize your teams; and create tools and templates for making assignments, discussing terminology and points of language usage, grammar and style.

If you add items (topics) to this TF wiki page, use WikiWords beginning with TF<Subtopic> - e.g. TFNb551, TFCredits, TFWishList. This facilitates searches. Thanks. For topics linked from the NB 6 Development page, preface the topics with NB6.

TFHowToContribute

• Getting Started
• First Steps

Projects

Software Localization

• NetBeans 6.1
• NetBeans 6.0
• NetBeans 5.5.1 BlueJ
• NetBeans 5.5.1 only for ja, zh_CN and pt_BR
• NetBeans 5.5.1 Beta only for ja,zh_CN and pt_BR
• NetBeans 5.5 ML
• NetBeans 5.0 ML

Other Ways to Contribute

• Contribute to Community Docs
• Translate Website Content
• Publish the NetBeans Weekly Newsletter in your language
• Use the Localization UC
• Contribute to the Translation team T-shirt design

Team WikiPages

• Brazilian translation
• Spanish translation
• German translators
• Russian translation
• Traduction Française (French Translation)
• Përkthimi Shqip Albanian translation
• zh_TW (Traditional Chinese)
• Simplified Chinese(zh_CN)
• Polish translation
• Japanese Wiki
• Italian Translation
• Turkish Translation
• TF Credits

Localization Quality Assurance

Eager to find out how look like your contribution once integrated into NetBeans?
During translation you might miss context. Once translation gets integrated into NetBeans, it is sometimes not accurate. A good practice to ensure translation is fitting to context is to perform localization test suites... To achieve that, the first thing to do is to get the latest status of translation visible in your IDE:

• Go to the Localization UC page. There you'll find out how to quickly download/install a localization plugin for your language. Once this done, restart your IDE and you'll see the latest version of translation in your IDE!
• Then, remains to get information about testing; for that go to NetBeans Localization Test Specs

And if you'd like to know more about how many bugs are filled for your language, which are those bugs and basically have an easy way to keep control of translated NetBeans quality ; feel free to consult the Localization Bugs Dashboard below:

• Localization Bugs Dashboard
• Report L10n Issue This is link leads to a template with pre-filled value for L10n Bug submitting! It will save your time to report NB Localization related issues.

Note: If you'd like to see your language tracked, feel free to e-mail me directly at jeremie@netbeans.org or at dev@translatedfiles.netbeans.org!

Future

• TF Wish List
• NetBeans 6.0 ML Build System Changes
• NB 6.1 ML Plan

Best Practices

• TF Project FAQs (start contributing general information about the project)
• Translation FAQs (start contributing information specific to the translation process, issues, difficulties, tips, tricks and tools)
• Frequently-used Localized Strings
• Build Release Information
• Create Flash Demos in Your Language
• Use Queryzilla for your queries

Guidelines

• Screenshots Guidelines
• Localize Images in Web pages

Other Language Sites

• Japanese - See http://ja.netbeans.org
• French - See http://fr.netbeans.org
• Simplified Chinese - See http://zh-cn.netbeans.org

Misc

• SunTechDaysSPB April 2008