please migrate to the new Fedora translation platform

[Jibec]

Hello, the Fedora project migrates its translation platform to Weblate [1].

This tool directly interact with your git repository, and requires us to know:

• [mandatory] which branch is your development branch?
• [mandatory] have you merged latest translation from Zanata and locked the project?
• [info] Weblate will handle updates when pot file changes, don't edit po files for this [2]
• [optional] what is the license of translation? (please use a code from https://spdx.org/licenses/)
• [optional] do you have any announcement/warning you would like to display to the translators? (it will be displayed in Weblate)
• [optional] do you need us to activate any specific checks? (this is a setting per component [3])
• [optional] do you need us to automatically detect new translation files? (typical usecase: website translation with one translation file per page)

Please note:

• For github hosted projects, Weblate open pull request. For other project, you'll have to add a key to allow commits.
• In Weblate's vocable, one project is a group of component. Each component is a translation file. You can have many projects or many components or both.
• You can change your mind over time, just reach trans@lists.fedoraproject.org

[1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-localization-platform-migrates-to-weblate/ [2] https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/continuous.html#avoiding-merge-conflicts [3] https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/user/checks.html#translation-checks

[ernestask]

Project on Zanata locked, but otherwise things are the same as here: https://github.com/abrt/retrace-server/issues/283#issuecomment-572047887

[Jibec]

could you please:

• remove empty po files (use file size or "pocount" from "translation toolkit")
• commit pot file

[ernestask]

Done.

[Jibec]

configuration is done: https://translate.stg.fedoraproject.org/projects/abrt/abrt-gnome

LINGUAS will be updated by Weblate

PO files will be updated by Weblate when POT is updated

Weblate will use Git Squash by author to limit the number of commits

I enabled language consistency between your components (if you add a language in one component, it will add it to all components)

[rluzynski]

The commit c17481c19866080abba470ada6d866bb93bf8407:

• Added 15 new languages which were not needed because they don't have any translations (later translations were added for 1 of those new languages). Should we remove them? Should they stay in the source code but should they be ignored by build scripts?
• Did not update the LINGUAS file. Should we update it manually?
• The first line of the commit message says that zh_HK was added. Other languages are listed only inside. Can this be improved somehow? It would be nice to list them all in the first line or a list could be ellipsized if it is too long.

[ernestask]

Commits are squashed, that’s why the message is like that.

[ernestask]

And are “empty” translation files a problem? I hardly believe that gettext is going to use empty strings instead of the original.

[ernestask]

I uninstalled the squash addon. It has some settings for tweaking, but let’s see how things look without it.

[rluzynski]

It's a minor problem. Nothing that impacts the end user. The only problem is that they consume the disk space. Unless it is a problem in Weblate which should be addressed I don't insist on removing the empty translations.

[ernestask]

More likely that it’s Weblate. I explicitly got rid of the empty ones we already had per Jean-Baptiste’s request. Let me look into that and get back to you.

Edit: or maybe we didn’t have empty ones. Memory fuzzy.

[Jibec]

I feel like no more work is to be done here, I don't really understand why you disabled the squash feature, but as long as you are happy, that's perfect

any support request has to be done on translation mailing list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/trans%40lists.fedoraproject.org/

[Jibec]

and, LINGUAS file is only updated by weblate when weblate itself add new languages. If some where added before and missing, weblate won't do anything

[ernestask]

and, LINGUAS file is only updated by weblate when weblate itself add new languages. If some where added before and missing, weblate won't do anything

Sounds like a cop-out to me.

[Jibec]

I agree with you, but it's what Weblate dev told me about how it work. I'll see him Sunday and ask him to improve the plugin. I'll remember to open a bug about it also.

[ernestask]

I realize that and it’s pretty much irrelevant at this point, since I went ahead and copied the Cockpit setup, which automatically updates LINGUAS. Other maintainers may not have that, so it would be great if the developers can be, say, more accommodating.

In any case, thank you.

[Jibec]

I discovered this lack of feature with you. I assume the best is to disable the add-on in your component in Weblate. As project admin, you should be able to do so. Tell me if you need guidance.