Improve translations like it is stlil done on OpenBikeSharing with weblate?

[Altonss]

We still see translations being done in weblate for the openbikesharing project. Could BikeSharingHub also try to have some kind of translation done through weblate for example?

[francoisfds]

Hi, indeed this a must have feature to keep translations up to date and allow seamless contributions.

[francoisfds]

@Altonss do you know how to do set it up ?

[Altonss]

@Altonss do you know how to do set it up ?

I am currently trying to set it up! But unfortunately don't have much time these days. When I have time to continue the work and if I need some help I will write a message here. The translation repo I am trying to set up is located here: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/bikesharinghub/#information

[francoisfds]

OK, I have seen that, thank you very much ! Take the time you need 😉

[Altonss]

It looks like it is working now :+1: @francoisfds do you want write access to the weblate repo?

Things to be done:

• [ ] Set up repository links for an automated flow of updates to Weblate.
• [ ] Provide translation instructions to guide translators.
• [ ] Use flags to indicate special strings in your translation.
• [ ] The use of Weblate has been approved by the upstream project.
• [ ] Specify that you use Weblate for translations in the README. This will allow Weblate to become known, attract new translators and be used more widely (including by free projects).

[francoisfds]

Sure, I've just signed up there : https://hosted.weblate.org/user/francoisfds. For the upstream project approval, is there something special to do ?

[Altonss]

Sure, I've just signed up there : https://hosted.weblate.org/user/francoisfds. For the upstream project approval, is there something special to do ?

I have just added you as administrator and did a pr to add the weblate reference in the readme. The other points should not be showstopper right now. So if the PR gets merged, I will click on the button to ask for hosting :)

[francoisfds]

Great, the Readme is merged and new translations as well. Thank tou @Altonss.

[Altonss]

I really like this project, thank you for having revived the OpenBikeSharing app! I have just sent out the request for free hosting, will keep you informed of the progress :)

[Altonss]

The free hosting plan for our project has been accepted! I will now close the issue as all seem to work fine! If something were to break, feel free to reopen this issue :)

[francoisfds]

Great, thanks a lot ! I have also set up automatic push from github to weblate so it can be kept up to update 👌

[Altonss]

Great, thanks a lot ! I have also set up automatic push from github to weblate so it can be kept up to update ok_hand

I didn't know how to set this up, how did you do it?

[francoisfds]

I followed this guide : https://docs.weblate.org/fr/latest/admin/continuous.html#github-setup. It has to be set on github side so any new commit can trigger an update message. This needs admin rights on the repo I think. Also, there was some features to explore on weblate to complete the trial plan : flags and screenshots. I'm not sure if it was mandatory.

[Altonss]

Have you changed some settings on weblate? Because now some error is hapenning when pushing changes to github:

[francoisfds]

Nothing on my side since last saturday, unless merging your German translation. That's strange ! This could come from the free plan being accepted... ?

[Altonss]

I don't really know :( I will have a look at it tomorrow :)

[francoisfds]

The error is not thrown for every change : https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/bikesharinghub/bikesharinghub/#repository But wow, "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 26 commits", we may need to squash them ?

[Altonss]

I just installed a module which always squashes the commits before sending. After squashing it worked again, so I guess it's fine now :)

[francoisfds]

Indeed that's a good thing, well done !

[francoisfds]

I opened a merge request in fdroiddata to advertise the weblate link :wink:

[Altonss]

Great idea! (I see your pipeline has failed on fdroid)

[francoisfds]

Yes, there was an order to follow in the yml file, but now the pipeline passed.

[francoisfds]

Hi @Altonss. The last merged weblate commit added new lines in all languages with emty value like :

<string name="app_name" translatable="false"></string>

Unfortunately now if you run the app with an other language than English, there are blank spaces instead of the actual string. I think we need to revert these changes, but first do you know what was their purpose ?

[Altonss]

Oh I'm sorry this happenned :/ Did someone trigger this changes or was this some kind of automated weblate thing?

[francoisfds]

I don't really know I think that was part of the 26 commits that were stuck in the beginning of the week. May be that was one automatic commit per each language ?!

[Altonss]

That is really strange. Let's just drop these changes and after that update the changes on weblate to match this repo. I will also change the settings to squash the commits per language, so it will be easier to monitor the incoming changes!

Edit: you can have a look at the installed modules on weblate here: https://hosted.weblate.org/addons/bikesharinghub/bikesharinghub/ Maybe you will find the error, I don't know...

[francoisfds]

Ok that's good idea to squash only per language, thanks ! I will revert the changes and we will see if this thing will be triggered again.

[Altonss]

Wait I have maybe found something!! There is a module that deletes blank translations, should I install it to correct the errors?

(sorry for the french UI)

[francoisfds]

It's Okay I pushed the fix to the master branch. For me too weblate UI is French everywhere, because I'm French :wink: It's not really about blanks spaces but empty strings which were copied from the default "strings" file. I assume the gilty plugin is "Nettoyer les fichiers de traduction", it states :

Mettre à jour tous les fichiers de traduction pour qu’ils correspondent au fichier mono-langue de base.

I think this is a good feature but that must exclude the keys with translatable="false".

[Altonss]

Ok than let's just uninstall that module, after that we will have to clean the merge conflict alert and than it will hopefully be the end of the problems :) Edit: It is swedish that caused conflicts

[francoisfds]

Ok we leave it uninstalled and if new strings are added we will see. How do you know it is swedish ?

[Altonss]

[francoisfds]

Right, I didn't see the big warnings ! Oh that must be related to my previous commit.

Swedish updated, 5 hours ago. This didn't triggered pull request, so I missed it ! Do you know how often the pull request are triggered ?

[francoisfds]

There is some instructions to follow to fix the conflict. I can do it unless you are already doing it ?

[Altonss]

Yes do it! I understand it's git behind all that, but I don't how how to it :laughing:

[francoisfds]

I will look at that in moments.

[francoisfds]

We are all good, I rebased my commit on top of weblate's branch. In the future I will try to check weblate before pushing strings.