Welcome to the FIT Project mailing list 

http://fit.dit.upm.es | http://rubyforge.org/projects/fit-project/

Fit aims to deliver an open source web translation platform supporting current standards such as gettext's pofiles and xliff. Integrated with the project development work flow translating code will ease the pain of developers, translators and system administrators.

We have three major objectives:

• Enforce the usage of standard translation interchange formats such as gettext's pofiles and xliff and tools like xgettext. Help projects to coordinate the translation process while at development stage. Let private organizations know about the usage of this tools and how it can improve their current procedures.

• Reduce the overhead of production stage by linking directly to their i18n repository. That will allow the people involved in the translation team to be up to date about the project translation status. Bring real translators to participate in through a web interface, without any additional knowledge. Make the management aware of every task in the process so that they can take the right decisions. Allow an easier coordination and a lighter communication with the help of feeds, reports, marks and events. We want our software to store and use the more automatic information as possible rather than human provided information. That means a more agile and clever platform following the DRY principle.

• Create a community and a public translation database. Our software will allow projects to share the translation work in between, by providing community features like search through public catalog, query for similar translations and collaboration between projects and translators. Features such as ratings, comments, copywriter's suggests, contextual information and fuzzy search amongst others.