[beryilma]

Versus now... I changed the text on a button with an internationalized string. It only took me about a week.

I put the English string in the catalog, updated a number of tests, run the tests on the local system, pushed the change to staging cluster, fix unanticipated test failures, push the change to production, contact the translators to have the string translated to a number of languages, and have documentation updated.

[lupire]

I suggest you use translation management tools, so the translator gets the strong as soon as you add it to the catalog.

Buy anyway there's no "then vs now" when you are really comparing "prototype" to "deliver to users". It took Unix decades to get those strings translated.

[Muromec]

So... It goes to production before you get translations to all the languages?

[beryilma]

In my case, the "production" does not really become visible to users right away. Perhaps, I should have called it "pre-production".