User:Wenzel/Verbatim:narro and pootle

These are some observations about the narro and pootle projects for web-based localization.

Positive

installation instructions pretty straightforward
Importing from SVN seems straightforward (via a cron job converting the project's structure into narro's structure)
Summer of Code project coming up to integrate Silme and Narro

Negative

Dependencies don't seem to be listed anywhere. Needs Zend Framework, apparently.
Requires at least PHP 5.2.0. We only have 5.1.6 -- there's a workaround for now, but in the future it may not be that easy.
pushing back to SVN seems unsupported for now.
I haven't yet been able to figure out how to support AMO's .po style yet ("underscore_style" message id, suggestion to be pulled from en-US file).

Positive

Devs seem to be very determined to help out Mozilla and have made major project changes together with Wil already
The "translate toolkit" part of the software seems thoroughly tested (i.e., a test run on trunk: "91 failed, 1214 passed in 15.83 seconds")
Bugs Wil was complaining about earlier seem to have been fixed in the meantime.
Wil already wrote a two-way SVN integration with AMO

Negative

Trunk is still uncapable/unaware of SSL, we'd need to fix that.
While a little better documented than Narro, Pootle has a myriad of dependencies and is therefore quite hard to set up.
Pootle is based on Python 2.5. We have 2.4 and would need to "support" this ourselves (not necessarily a minus for Pootle, but something that should change on our end).

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