Weblate

On 2020-12-14 https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash was created.

Status

consider it still as experimental.

The page is organized by roles.

General

Many pages @ weblate link context sensitive help by i in a circle.

Weblate Documentation

Translator

Everybody

can add suggestions as anomymous.

Everybody with a weblate account

can translate and gets mentioned in the po file. In the current configuration a review is required.

Our former language maintainers

are asked to tell us their weblate name, to get Review rights.

Ideally no checks should fail. In some cases, the mistake is in the source string. Then please report them by a comment or label.

Coder

With weblate you get feedback, where Translators have problems with your messages. Overview Program Source Messages Tasks by priority:

1. label:"Source needs review"
2. Multiple failing checks This is usually an indication that something could be done to improve the source string. Info

Tip

In both cases at the bottom select

1. Comments,
2. Other languages

to get an impression of the problem.

Maintainer

Concept

Weblate is more anarchistic than our hierarchical thinking with core devs accepting or rejecting patches:

Project settings

Some are derived from our status as libre hosted project.

https://hosted.weblate.org/settings/gnucash/#access is set public meaning:

• visible for all,
• every registered user can translate,
• unregistered can attach suggestions.

To avoid chaos in https://hosted.weblate.org/settings/gnucash/#workflow

• Review is activated, ideally a Gnucash Language :Team should have at least 2 reviewers (and unlimited users), confirming each others changes.

Component settings

Suggestions are enabled, but Suggestion voting and Autoaccept suggestions are currently not.

Lazy commits

The changes in this mode are committed once any of the following conditions are fulfilled:

• Somebody else changes an already changed string.
• A merge from upstream occurs.
• An explicit commit is requested.
• Change is older than period defined as Age of changes to commit on Component configuration.

Setup

WebLate Component	GitHub Repository/location	Notes
Glossary	glossary	linked project, part of Program
Program	gnucash
Website	gnucash-htdocs

Workflow

As long as Pushs of Pull Requests are not enabled, start with https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/#repository or do it separate for real components.

Tip

remote add weblate to your repo. Then you can preview pending commits.

If there are pending commits

1. rebase (you need to zoom the window to see the button);
2. push, to create PRs;
3. review and merge the PRs via code.gnucash.org;
4. rebase. Now all lines should show 0.