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Introduction to the Zanata project

Welcome to Zanata

Zanata is an open source, web-based Translation Management System developed by Red Hat and community contributors. It allows translators to translate documentation and software online using a web browser. It is written in Java and uses modern web technologies like JBoss, Seam, GWT, Hibernate, and a REST API. It currently supports translation of DocBook/Publican documentation via gettext PO files, and translation of software projects via PO files or Java Properties files. Projects can be pushed to and pulled from a Zanata server using a Maven plugin or a Python client.

Zanata provides several features to help translators overcome some of the problems during document translation. Such features include:

• Multi-user editing - Many translators can work simultaneously on one project.
• Live editing - You can see changes from other translators as soon as each message is saved.
• Multiple project versions - Zanata tracks current and past versions of projects.

For developers and writers: By using Zanata for your translations, you can open up your project for translations without having to open your entire project's version control.

For translators: No need to deal with PO files, gettext or a version control system - just log in to the website, join a language team and start translating, with translation memory (history of similar translations) and the ability to see updates from other translators in seconds.

Zanata has been deployed at translate.jboss.org and is ready to accept documentation for jboss.org projects for translation. Visit http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Zanata for instructions on how to get started.

Communicate

• The #Zanata IRC channel is on freenode: [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=zanata]
• The project page is here: http://zanata.org/