Weblate

Weblate is a web based translation tool. On 2020-12-14 https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/ was created.

Status

consider it still as experimental and there are still unimplemented ideas in Improve Localization Process#Remaining Ideas by Repos.

This page is organized by roles.

General

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

Weblate Documentation

Setup

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

Glossary

It tries to collect the common GnuCash specific terminology of all other components.

After it is completed, it can be uploaded into Weblates Gnucash glossary.

Currently it is using and ancient style of context "context: term" as MsgId.

Questions and tasks

1. Should MsgId "context: term" be converted to MsgContext, MsgId? Pros and cons?
2. Review of sources for updated lists
3. Other missing conventions?

Website

Set priority (default=100) to

105 for location:global

104 for location:header

103 for location:menu

102 for location:footer

101 for location:index

100 (remains)

99 for location:2.6-release as the page is currently not linked, but should be merged into features.

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.

Weblate PRs

Welblate collects all commits for the same component in one pull request.

One commit colletcs all changes by the same author.

(verify: concurrent changes by different authors on the same message/file/component).

A new PR is created, after the old got merged.

Workflow

Before pushing a msgmerge

or, if Pushs (of Pull Requests) are disabled, you can get the current status of commits at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/#repository or do it separate for real components.

Tip

Set URL=https://hosted.weblate.org/git/gnucash/gnucash/ # for gnucash (program and glossary) or

URL=https://hosted.weblate.org/git/gnucash/website/ # for ht-docs, then

git remote add weblate $URL

to your repo. Then you can preview pending commits by:

git fetch weblate

If there are pending commits – their merge will result in conflicts after the push of a msgmerge –

1. Only required, if GitHub Settings->Hooks are misconfigured: rebase the weblate repo(s):
   • all together: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/#repository
   • or per component: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/gnucash/#repository …

   you need to zoom the window to see the buttons;

   Reason: merge conflicts would lock the repository;

2. Only required, if Push on commit is disabled: push, to create PRs;
3. review the PR
   • at github

   The github committer is the weblate bot – he will not dicuss with you.

   • Some translators have a github account, too. Then you can ping them with @<github_name_of_the_translator>
   • In all other cases it is better to comment on the changes at weblate:

   1. Open the file in weblate,
   2. Search the message,
   3. set the status to "needs editing[?]", which results in the fuzzy flag in the po file,
   4. Add a comment for target group other translators. Unfortunately they are not stored in the po file.

   • better follow the component specific process in Language_Administration#Components,
4. merge the PRs via code.gnucash.org;

   Note

   Weblate does not recognize closed (rejected) PRs and will create a new PR with the same stupid commit.

   Current workaround

   In the case all changes of a commit are wrong, commit and revert the commit.

   If only some are wrong, search them in weblate, add a comment and perhaps a flag.

5. (Same condition like 1) rebase weblate. Now all lines should show 0.