First off, let me take this chance to say a big THANKS to Conny for stepping
forward and leading this effort.

Like any vibrant community, we've got a large and vibrant translators group.
Seeing fresh blood was very promising and encouraging! Our bet is to offer
all the necessary tools and processes to bloom and ship Maemo to places where
today isn't possible.

Having said that, let's go on and see how we can improve Maemo and Tx.


Fixed issues

- Integration with svn on garage: [ FIXED ]
Sample commit: http://ow.ly/AuCu
Will go live in the next days.

- Integration with gitorious: [ FIXED ]
Just add 'transifex' as a committer to your repo.
Sample commit: http://ow.ly/AuIv

- Notifications to project maintainers on permission request: [ FIXED ]
Will go live in the next days.

- Disable editng of the POT file [ FIXED ]
Your file filter (regex) is now updated to enable access only to PO files.
We could, of course, create an Advanced config option for maintainers to
choose to exclude POT files from their projects, regardless of the filter.

- Obfuscate email addresses in templates: [ FIXED ]
Email addresses are obfuscated in the template, but usable from browsers with
javascript enabled. Use 'View Source' to check it out.


Open tickets

- Create new translation with 1 click:
http://transifex.org/ticket/399

- Per-Language Team Coordinators:
http://transifex.org/ticket/323

- Discussion system:
http://transifex.org/ticket/121

We are working on something minimal. The goal is to allow translators to
work together without *requiring* them to have a mailing list. Would love to
collect some more requirements and turn them into features.


Other issues

The following issues could be solved, if we believe they are important.

- Integration with git on garage
Transifex supports git+ssh for pushing, which isn't available on garage.
We'll need to either enable this on garage or find a way to make git over
https work in Tx.

- Send announcements to all translators for a project.

- Automatically add the translator to the header of the .po file.

- Generate a list of all past and current translators (THANKS file).

- Integration with the maemo karma system

> It was not nice, that the translators had to wait until I could manually
> upload the translations, before they got any feedback or updated statistics.

Indeed. This is fixed if a maintainer chooses to push submissions directly to his VCS as commits.

To give some context: Transifex supports both pushing directly to a VCS,
but also submitting translations via email to the maintainers. In the latter
case, the maintainer needs to commit it, and then Tx detects the change and
updates the statistics.

> When uploading a .po file it gets checked, but if one of those checks fails
> there is no good error message what went wrong. The error message is for
> example to run "msgfmt -c" on the file. Transifex could do that for the user
> and report back the actual output of "msgfmt".

Unfortunately msgfmt's error messages are pretty bad. We started developing some
checks on top of polib, not really sure how those will turn out though..