i18n BoF at Akademy 2024 (9th/Monday, 10:00, Room 1)

[Luigi Toscano]

Yaron Shahrabani ha scritto:
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> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
> <mailto:luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>> wrote:
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>     Yaron Shahrabani ha scritto:
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>     > Online localization platforms keep evolving, we can't apply the same FUD the
>     > project encountered in 2010 to the current situation like the SNV/Git
>     stagnation.
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>     I've worked with both online translation systems (outside KDE) and offline and
>     whenever you need to apply broad changes there is no story: offline
>     translations are better.
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> Are you sure you've tried that in Weblate? because I'm doing it all the time.

Sure, you can check the Italian Gramps project translations for example.

>     But the tl;dr here is that any future system can't prevent the usage of an
>     offline system. So the primary method would still be repository with all
>     translations the and whatever happens in weblate would need to consider the
>     changes in the repository. Each team will decide the best workflow, provided
>     that the usual rules apply (only translators with "commit" power will change,
>     others will only be able to suggest changes, as it happens with code).
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> We can suggest Weblate improvements for that matter if we're not happy with
> how is it working today.

Sure, but again
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>     >
>     > And we can most certainly exclude certain languages from the online
>     platforms
>     > instead of banning them altogether.
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>     That's not the point, the point is not about banning online platforms. It is
>     not having them as the only method (CLI tools which download stuff one by one
>     are not a solution).
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> I'm pretty sure there's already an option to download all the files at once
> and if not we should suggest that to Weblate.
> 

I don't think that would that be the solution better than an svn up or git pull?


> Weblate is not the perfect tool but it can be better if we provide our
> feedback, LibreOffice adopted Weblate and fixed many things they are not happy
> with, it's a much better tool now and LO is not a small project.

I would kindly invite you to recheck what I wrote above. I didn't write
weblate is not the solution. I've just wrote then, at some point, we will have
weblate but it won't be the "primary" source, just an interface over the
repository that can be handled also without weblate.

-- 
Luigi