Pootle

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Pootle
Original author(s)David Fraser
Developer(s)translate.org.za
Initial releaseDecember 2004; 19 years ago (2004-12)
Final release
2.8.2 [1] / 15 September 2017; 7 years ago (2017-09-15)
Preview release
2.9.0rc1 [2] / 14 September 2017; 7 years ago (2017-09-14)
Repository
Operating systemCross-platform[which?]
TypeComputer-assisted translation
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitepootle.translatehouse.org

Pootle is an online translation management tool with a translation interface. It is written in the Python programming language using the Django framework and is free software originally developed and released by Translate.org.za[3] in 2004. It was further developed as part of the WordForge project and the African Network for Localisation and is now maintained by Translate.org.za.

Pootle is a software platform for localization of applications' graphical user interfaces, as opposed to document translation. Pootle makes use of the Translate Toolkit for manipulating translation files and offline features used to manage the translation of LibreOffice and Gajim in Pootle. Pootle has built-in terminology extraction, translation memory, glossary management and matching, goal creation, and management of users.

In the translation process, it can display statistics for the body of translations hosted by the server and allow users to make translation suggestions and corrections for later review. It acts as a translation-specific bug reporting system, allowing online translation with various translators, operating as a management system where translators translate using an offline tool and use Pootle to manage the workflow of the translation.

The development of Pootle has stalled since 2007 because the latest version of Pootle (2.9) still supports only Python 2,[4] despite Python 3 coming out in 2008.[5] Nobody has migrated Pootle to Python 3.

  1. ^ 2.8.2 Release Notes
  2. ^ 2.9.0rc1 Release Notes
  3. ^ Translate.org.za
  4. ^ "Python 3.8 unable to install any package....returns Error: could not find a version that satisfies the requirement.....Error: No matching distribution found #6908". translate/pootle at GitHub. 2020-05-10. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
  5. ^ "Python 3.0 Release". Python.org. 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2021-12-28.