Translator's context for 5.0

[tuomas2]

Checklist (as suggested by @timbze ) from last release

• Czech @davidhrbac
• German
• Russian
• Finnish @tuomas2
• French
• Hungarian @krisek
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brazilian) @pepaulo
• Afrikaans
• India (Hindi) @kesarsauce
• South Korea
• Lithuanian
• Spanish @timbze
• Polish
• Arabic
• Italian @LAfricain
• Slovenian
• Chinese (CN&TW)
• Ukrainian
• Serbian (latin & rs)
• Kazakh
• Esperanto @verdulo
• Norweigian
• Turkish @alerque
• Estonian
• Azerbaijani
• Dutch @marnix
• Slovak
• Uzbek
• Kyrgyz

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Related:

• Translator's context for 4.0 (originally 3.4) #1028

[tuomas2]

Sent announcement to translators via Transifex announcements

New AndBible release 5.0 is planned within the coming few months, during the autumn most likely. There are some major new features in the new release:

• Cloud synchronize (via Google drive currently)
• Discrete mode in main app and separate “calculator” app
• Workspace colors
• Chained links windows
• Synchronize groups
• Search / filter labels
• Backup Database: choose what to restore
• MyBible / MySword modules, Installing, uninstalling, Backup & restore
• Custom repositories
• Deep links

Some of these features require new strings to be translated. Amount of new strings is, however, not very big, like last time.

Before starting translating, please see video intro to new features; I believe that it serves best as context for this release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKmoe95KhI. See also translator's context ticket, in which you can also send questions and comments if they arise: #2684

As always, translator's instructions can be read from our wiki page: https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible/wiki/Translating-User-Interface

As we are in Beta phase, we are mainly fixing bugs and smoothing the rough edges. Although there can be still minor changes to strings, it is good time to start updating translations.

Thank you for your continued support and co-operation for the AndBible Open Source project!

Best regards & God bless,
Tuomas
Lead developer

[tuomas2]

Added new instructions about translating BibleNames to https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible/wiki/Translating-User-Interface. Translating BibleNames properly is now more important than earlier because bible reference detection is used heavily in Epub support.

[tuomas2]

BibleNames translation process needs improvement. Please do not work on those yet. Fixing today or tomorrow.

[tuomas2]

BibleNames translation process needs improvement. Please do not work on those yet. Fixing today or tomorrow.

Now it's fixed. I'll write instructions tomorrow.

[tuomas2]

Sending this via Transifex announcement soon.

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Final call for translators for upcoming AndBible 5.0 release (release scheduled 2nd nov 2023)

New AndBible release 5.0 is almost ready and beta is already rather stable. Release is scheduled to happen November 2nd, 2023, in 2 months time from now. Translation work of user interface translations to various languages should be started as soon as possible. I’m not any more adding new strings or changing existing ones unless it is very critical for some reason.

I was just doing myself translations to Finnish language and it took me around an hour or so to finish them. I was also adding contextual help (“Developer notes”) to some strings, so hopefully context is clear and translation work can be done smoothly. Please do not hesitate to ask me if something is unclear! Preferrably via Transifex issues or via email: help.andbible@gmail.com or to Github translators context ticket (link below).

As always, this message (and possible corrections/minor additions) will be posted on Translator’ context ticket: #2684 so please keep checking that before you start the work.

Couple of important notes for the translation work.

• Why it is now important to translate also “Alt” entries in BibleNames resource (because of Epub support) and how to do it: https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible/wiki/Translating-User-Interface#biblenames-alt-names
• Argument numbering is now added to those strings that have more than one argument. This is necessary and has been requested because some languages might translate the content in different order than original. If there is no change to the translation, those can be fixed simply by using “Copy” button from translation history and just fixing arguments.

Many thanks to all your translation efforts! God bless!