Update and add more translations

[humdingerb]

If anyone wants to update translations with missing strings or add strings for more languages, please visit Polyglot. You can log in with your GitHub account. Thanks!

[janus2]

I took you literally... 3rd bullet point done! I understand now that it.catkeys was an example, too late.

[ghost]

This is the Romanian version.

[janus2]

Thanks included with PR #38

[Lan72]

The Ukrainian translation was ready more than a month ago. A new version of Weather was released, and the translation into it was never added. I wonder why?

[Lan72]

uk_weather.zip

[janus2]

I added your contribution with PR #50. I'm very sorry we missed your translation. The simple answer to your question is we are dumb... and for we I mean me.

[scottmc]

I suspect translations can also be submitted as pull requests?

[janus2]

Yes, but in the forum there is this explanation:

When you're done, send your translated catkeys file to the app's developer, or paste it via the form at sprunge.us3, which keeps the important whitespace (space, tab) contrary to e.g. pastebin.com, and link to it from a comment. If you feel up to it, try to work directly with the catkeys of the project's repo and submit a pull-request as described in the post Contributing via pull requests1.

I think Lan72 is right to be disappointed.

[humdingerb]

WTF, we're not allowed to make mistakes once in a while?!

[RajatGarg97]

Hi all, I am interested in contributing to Haiku. Can I add French translation strings to the weather application? Also please tell me if there is a specific path, the developers at Haiku follow to make contributions. Thanks and Regards

[pulkomandy]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 06:03:44AM +0000, Rajat Garg wrote:

Hi all, I am interested in contributing to Haiku. Can I add French translation strings to the weather application? Also please tell me if there is a specific path, the developers at Haiku follow to make contributions.

Application translations are currently handled at https://i18n.kacperkasper.pl/

As for contributing to Haiku, there isn't really a single path, but we can direct you depending on what you want to do. Maybe join the Haiku forum, mailing lists or IRC channel which would be more appropriate places to discuss this.

[Briseur]

French translation completed on Polyglot. I used french Yahoo weather to match most of time their translations. That's how I discovered that they changed and now use Foggy instead of Fog.

[victordomingos]

I would like to work on the translation to Portuguese (pt_PT).

[Knezzen]

When will Weather be updated and released to include the new translations? The Swedish translation was uploaded 10 months or so, but Weather has yet to be rebuilt to include it through HaikuDepot. When can a rebuild be initiated and by who?

[humdingerb]

Additional translation are seldomly cause for a new release. But since the last GCI and Janus' recent work did result in some substantial improvements, I'm sure we'll have a new version soon.

Whoever tags a new release should make sure the latest catkeys are imported from Polyglot first. And before that: upload the latest catkeys to Polyglot if there were changes to strings (besides some being removed).

[KapiX]

I disagree. I think doing a new bugfix release (x.y.z in semver) only with new translations is perfectly acceptable; after all it fixes a deficiency in the program, and is not really a new feature. Waiting for fixes in the program to come and treating translations as just a "passenger" is not a way to go, since those main fixes may never come.

It appears that's not the case for Weather, but for other apps it might be. Even then, for Weather the translation was finished a long time ago and it was never released.

[nexus6-haiku]

@humdingerb what's the status of the translations? Are all completed translations in Polyglot (100%) included now?

[nexus6-haiku]

@scottmc does it make sense to bind the translations to a specific milestone, especially a major? Provided we adopt SemVer, I see them more suitable for rolling patches.

[scottmc]

Not bind, just set 1.2 as a goal. Perhaps we can aim for an early November date for the next release, that way any work done during this hacktoberfest sprint can be included.

[humdingerb]

@humdingerb what's the status of the translations? Are all completed translations in Polyglot (100%) included now?

I've just added ca, es, it and an updated fr with ed1045c529a93a608748c9bf7d66953c70ee900c .

[scottmc]

Maybe time to pull in the latest translations and then do a 1.1.0 (or is it 1.2.0) release? @humdingerb @nexus6-haiku

[nexus6-haiku]

We need to clean things up a little bit and now it’s time! Currently the source code reads 1.1, so we should move to 1.2 and update code, resources, GitHub release and eventually the recipe to be aligned. The milestones on GitHub already reflect this versioning, IIRC. Is there a way to automatically trigger a new build on HaikuPorts when a new release is created here?

[humdingerb]

Is there a way to automatically trigger a new build on HaikuPorts when a new release is created here?

I don't think so. Recipes only get built if the $portVersion changes (for Weather going from v1.1 to v1.2) or when the REVISION constant in the recipe is increased.

I'll put a quick shoutout to finish translations in the forums.

Alternatively, we could wait for Haiku beta4 to hit, which should be soon, and ask @nexus6-haiku if he wanted to try making the icons scale with the font size, as several recent Haiku hidpi changes have done already. I haven't looked much into it, but the relevant Haiku commits were quite small... :)

[nexus6-haiku]

I don’t know how much it could take to adapt the UI but I’ll look at it. I don’t think the timeframe would fit with Beta4, though. I would draw a line here, bump to 1.2 with the current code base and add as many translations as possible. Then I would like to fix the Deskbar replicant and the UI scaling in 1.3. How does that sound?

[humdingerb]

Sounds good. I created #97 as reminder.

[humdingerb]

After waiting a week for translations to finish, it looks like we should create the new release with what we have, including Esperanto and Spanish which are both at 96%. OK?

(In the future, it would be best to create a new issue "Do a release v1.3" or something if you think it's time again. Had to wreak my mind to find this ticket again... :) )

[nexus6-haiku]

Yep, makes sense!

[nexus6-haiku]

There is an ongoing debate about translating the app name. I think that unless the name is translated everywhere including the Depot, it shouldn’t be translated at all. Thoughts?

[nexus6-haiku]

For the records there is a little bug in the location selection window where “City:” is never translated. I will look into his next week and would like to fix it before consolidating the release.

EDIT: see issue #98

[humdingerb]

There is an ongoing debate about translating the app name. I think that unless the name is translated everywhere including the Depot, it shouldn’t be translated at all.

The app name is translatable. It's up to the translators if they translate it or not. Same as at HaikuDepot. It seems few people are interested in translating SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION (and package title) at HaikuDepotServer. I do it for German, at least for "end-user packages", not for libraries etc.

For the records there is a little bug in the location selection window where “City:” is never translated.

FWIW, it's working fine for German...

[nexus6-haiku]

Thanks! I’ll check both the “City” translation and HaikuDepot.

[humdingerb]

Be advised, you'll need certain permissions at HDS to translate, upload screenshots/icons etc.

[dospuntos]

Norwegian translation added to Polyglot.