Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund

The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.

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Introduction

Prior to DSpace 7, the DSpace XML and JSP User interfaces had different catalogs of interface messages. Unified on a single user interface, the DSpace community is transitioning to a widely adopted web standard for the translation of interface messages.

Originating in the Linux world, the GNU gettext tools and the PO file format is also the backbone of localization support in Wordpress, django and Drupal

The DSpace community is actively seeking contributors to aid in the translation of DSpace interface messages, to ensure that DSpace 7 can benefit from the most extensive localization support in the history of the project.

Getting started

Contributing to translations requires a Github and a DuraSpace wiki account. Head over to www.github.com to create a free Github account.

Accounts for the DuraSpace wiki are free as well and can be requested in an email to sysadmin@duraspace.org, indicating that you wish to contribute to DSpace 7 Translations.

Make yourself familiar with the new .pot catalog of DSpace messages, as well the .po file format with the translations for the catalog.

  • 2019-05-20 DRAFT dspace.pot
    • In this catalog, all msgstr entries are empty. This is because the catalog is the authoritative place for the original keys, not for any translations.
    • the English messages ARE they keys. There is no intermediate concept of opaque keys anymore. The English messages are used throughout the code, and are the basis for providing the translations.
  • 2019-05-20 DRAFT en.po or the older DRAFT de.po
    • Both the msgids and the msgstr entries are in English in en.po.
    • The msgids are in English, and the msgstr are in German in de.po
    • Purely as comment, the old intermediate keys are still referenced in comments

2019-05-20 State of development

As part of preview release 1, the developers are still using en.json catalogs. Once Pull Request 366 is accepted, the migration to the new .POT and .PO standard files will be official.

As long as DSpace 7 is still in development, it is expected that the dspace.pot catalog, as well as the different translations, will continue to be extended and evolved.

Together, we aim to release as many, as complete translations as possible, as part of the official DSpace 7.0 release.

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