For several months it’s been possible to translate a good chunk of the Cerb4 UI into new languages using our built-in Translation Editor plugin.  Because early 4.x development was constantly shuffling things around as it evolved, we didn’t officially request translations because we didn’t want to create tedious and unnecessary work for people.  We’re feeling really confident about how things look in 4.2, and we’d like to start pooling together the translations you guys have created so they can be shared with the rest of the community.

We’re also aware that not all text in the interface can be changed from the Translation Editor yet.  Now that the major functionality of 4.x is finalized we’ll make everything translatable.

Over the past few months, I recall hearing about translations for German, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Slovak, Chinese, and Norwegian.  I’ve been able to track down the files for German and Italian from the forums.

I just created a new project on GitHub to share Cerb4 translations:
http://github.com/wgm/cerb4-translations/

I chose GitHub because it provides the best of both worlds:

• Contributors can ‘fork’ the official project and have ‘commit’ access to their own copy. This gives everyone the benefit of version control (history, merging, revert, etc) without us compromising the official project.
• Developers can monitor forks to easily merge new contributions back into the official project.
• We can also recruit redundant translators (e.g. several people who know German) to proof each other’s work and refine the translations.

If you’d like to contribute a translation but would rather not learn GitHub, feel free to post it on the forums or send it to us in e-mail.  We’ll copy it over to the GitHub project for you.

If you’re willing to create a new translation from English into any another language, here’s a guide with instructions:
http://wiki.cerb4.com/wiki/Creating_a_new_translation_and_sharing_it_with_the_community

Thanks!
-Jeff@WGM