Pootle: a web translation and translation management engine

• Web: <http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index>
• Bugzilla: <http://bugs.locamotion.org/>
• Mailing List: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle>
• IRC: #pootle on irc.freenode.org

How it works

Pootle can host a number of translation projects for a number of languages. It allows a team to manage their files, permissions, projects, and also allows for translation on-line. Files can be downloaded for offline translation and later uploaded again.

Pootle tries to lower the barrier of entry, but also provides tools to enable teams to work towards higher quality while welcoming newcomers.

Running

To run Pootle from sources, just run:

./PootleServer

After installation with setup.py, PootleServer should also be accessible from the installation.

If you are more familiar with Django projects, you can look into the manage.py commands as well.

Use --help to see the other options. The defaults will generally work.

Now visit http://localhost:8000/ to try out Pootle.

To stop the server, press Ctrl-C.

It is not recommended to run Pootle as the root user. For any non-trivial installation of Pootle, ensure that you use a database server (not SQLite) and memcached. Other important information about optimisation is available in the Pootle documentation: <http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/optimisation>

Pootle can run under Apache using mod_wsgi. Check this page for detailed instructions: <http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/apache>

Manual preparation

1. ./manage.py syncdb

   At this step, you will be asked to create a superuser. This user will be the administrator for your Pootle installation.

2. ./manage.py initdb

   This step fills the database with initial data needed to run Pootle.

3. ./manage.py refresh_stats

   Precalculate statistics and indexes for existing translation projects. This step is not strictly required, but without it Pootle will feel a bit sluggish and slow when visiting accessing a page for the first time.

4. ./manage.py runserver

   You can now visit your Pootle installation at http://localhost:8000. Note that the first time will take a few moments to load, since Pootle needs to pre-compute stats data for the translation files.

Bug reporting and feature requests

You can always report bugs or feature requests on the mailing list but the best place for those is in Bugzilla: <http://bugs.locamotion.org/>

If you have a traceback or a patch then please include it. Also please be quite specific about how the bug occurred and what you expected to happen.

If this is a feature request then try to be specific about how you think this feature should work.