Feature: offer most up-to-date FC translations/localizations via addon manager

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Feature: offer most up-to-date FC translations/localizations via addon manager #68

Open luzpaz opened 6 years ago

luzpaz commented 6 years ago

Ref: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27097&p=217178#p217178 This way users don't have to wait for updates between releases.

luzpaz commented 6 years ago

Prerequisites

~~Create github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-translations~~
~~Download Transifex CLI client called tx (link)~~
~~A modified version (for FreeCAD) of this transifex translation pull script~~

Proposed Workflow:

~~An admin uses the transifex pull script to download all translations and then upload them to FreeCAD/FreeCAD-translations~~
~~Addon-Manager will then have access to the FreeCAD/FreeCAD-translations repo and users will be able to download said translations.~~

Note: We can also borrow from some of the musescore script logic

luzpaz commented 5 years ago

Prerequisites

Create github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-translations
Modify the FC crowdin scripts to work with the FreeCAD bot

Proposed Workflow:

Single/Multiple translations

Bot somehow polls crowdin to see if new translations have been translated
Bot triggers script to export updated translations from crowdin and push to the GitHub repo
The server has qttools5-dev-tools package installed and converts the .ts files in to .qm files.
User is notified via the Addon Manager that new translations are available (maybe just for dev version?)
Addon Manager downloads translation files in to the users ~/.FreeCAD/translation/ directory
User is prompted to restart FreeCAD

Result: new translations should be available in the UI

Side Feature

Bot can function as a way to let the devs know that translations are available and to trigger an update from Crowdin to FreeCAD master

* (forum thread)

luzpaz commented 3 years ago

Updated workflow with info from https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=51825&p=506882#p505457

kaktusus commented 3 years ago

Hi. a good plan is the basis of every action. I have to think a little bit and get to know more. I do not know the possibilities of the crowdin system, and I do not know what tools could be used there to automate the work. being able to use cron (crontab) would automate some of the work.

luzpaz commented 3 years ago

There are a few options:

improve our crowdin scripts (link)
use the crowdin cli (link)

luzpaz commented 1 month ago

This is still a good idea, IMHO. Maybe we can make it happen post-1.0 ?