How OpenStack gets translated (Opensource.com)

Over at Opensource.com, one of the translators for OpenStack, Aukasz JernaA, is interviewed about the process of translating a large project like OpenStack. "How does OpenStack's release cycle play into the translation process? Is it manageable to get translations done on a six-month release cycle?Most of the work gets done after the string freeze period, which happens around a month before the release, with a lot of it being completed after getting the first release candidate out of the window. Documentation is translated during the entire cycle, as many parts are common between releases and can be deployed independently to the releases. So we don't have to focus that much about deadlines, as it's available online all the time and not prepackaged and pushed out to users and distributions. Of course, having a month to do the translations can be cumbersome, depending on the team doing the translation (some do that part time, some people in their spare time), and how many developers push out new strings during the string freeze."