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Posted by David E. Jones on Feb 15, 2006; 6:57am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Users-users-lists-ofbiz-org-tp137415p137416.html


The best thing to do would be to manage it as if you "owned" it.  
Pretty much everything in an open source community (and not all open  
source "projects" are really community based) is done by someone in  
the community spearheading the effort.

The first thing that typically needs to be done is to create some  
sort of document describing what exists and what you would like to  
have exist (ie a goal to hit). This is best to put in a Jira issue so  
that everyone interested can have a central place to see the status  
and keep up to date, and coordinate things. Larger efforts should be  
split into multiple issues, but a Spanish translation should be okay  
in a single issue.

For splitting it up: in this case once a list of all existing Spanish  
translations is in place you can create a list of all components that  
need translation work. Once that is put together people can start  
volunteering for specific ones, or if they volunteer to do whatever  
the "owner" can assign it to someone.

I hope that helps... It would be great to see more translation work  
move forward. I think the best set of translations right now is to  
French, and even that is not totally up to date. Even after the  
initial push this is something that needs to be maintained over time.

There are tools, like the property editor in NetBeans, that can show  
you which messages are missing in which languages, and then those can  
be filled in over time as new messages are added in English (which is  
where they _usually_ start).

-David


On Feb 14, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Jose Antonio Hdez wrote:

> I am part of the referenced Mexican team that are beginning to  
> learn/work with Ofbiz and of sure we would like to work in order to  
> have OfBiz in Spanish. Only we need to coordinate this effort in  
> order to avoid double efforts.
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> David, Could you help us with the coordination or give us some  
> advices to a successful coordination (this is my first time  
> interacting with an Open Source community)?
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> Regards
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> José Antonio Hernández
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> Soy parte del mencionado equipo de México que está iniciando para  
> aprender/trabajar con OfBiz y seguro que nos interesa trabajar para  
> tener OfBiz en español. Solo necesitamos tener una buena  
> coordinación para evitar dobles esfuerzos.
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> David, ¿Podrías ayudarnos con la coordinación o darnos algunos  
> consejos para que nos coordinemos exitosamente (es mi primera vez  
> interactuando en una comunidad Open Source)?
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> Saludos
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> José Antonio Hernández
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