GitLab is only useable in English

As a lot of people don't master english very well, this would need to be addressed at some point.

Hi Joop,

can you explain in bit more detail as I do not understand what needs addressing?

I don't see any option to change the interface language. A lot of in-house development, where gitlab is mostly aiming for, happens in local languages and not everybody manages just as well in English. That's why I propose that translateability of the software should be aimed for.

GitLab does not support translations and probably will not in future. Translations mean a huge effort and can't get managed for rapid development. Every release would take a huge group of people checking the translations to make them correct.

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You really don't have a clue how community translations work, do you? You can leave correctness of translations to others, don't worry about that. Just don't officially support them ;). But translations not being possible would be a huge error (for example for any use case I would have for GitLab, I would need the possibility to translate it myself).

Status changed to reopened

No apparently I don't. This still doesn't mean that we will support this any time soon. This was already addressed on the proper place for this and that is the feedback forum http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/3337748-internationalization-german-and-spanish-translati http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/4307192-translation-section-per-project-like-wiki-issues-

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I work for a global company with offices on five continents. Our development teams are distributed in many countries whose native language is not English, I can't believe you're not given the importance to the ability to configure a piece of software in multiple languages. There are many examples of complete platforms for years have implemented this capability, using the power of the Internet and volunteer groups, I think that would give much value to GitLab in the future.

Regards

@garrapato just to make sure you know we haven't abandoned this idea, we have an issue at #4012 (moved) with a lot more discussion.

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Having GitLab in Spanish (and other languages) would be superb!!!

Hi @newcmelgar! Check out our issue regarding internationalization! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4012

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