[zanata-devel] Why not transifex?

[Sean Flanigan]

On 05/27/2011 11:27 PM, jesus m. rodriguez wrote:
> I just became aware of Zanata and was curious why not Transifex?
> 
> http://www.transifex.net/

That's a bit of a long story, and I don't know all of it.

Zanata was started when Transifex was still trying to integrate with
every version control system under the sun, with the consequent
reliability problems, whereas Zanata was designed to be its own
repository (an approach now used by Transifex, since 1.0).

Zanata was designed in consultation with Red Hat's content and L10n
teams to serve the needs of content authors and translators and to
improve the translation workflow, preferably with automation.  Zanata
uses an event service to propagate translations immediately to other
translators who are editing the same document.

With the server written in Java, Zanata can take advantage of some of
the clever L10n libraries which exist for Java, and it should be a
little easier to install on non-Linux platforms.  The server supports
authentication against Kerberos, JAAS modules and the Fedora Account
System, and the REST API currently has clients in Java and Python.

Regards

Sean

-- 
Sean Flanigan

Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat

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