[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Importing translations to Weblate
Hello devs, I need your opinion on how we should import new components (i.e. translations) into Weblate <http://l10n.xwiki.org>. Weblate allows you to create components directly on their platform but it will be very difficult for us to so because we would have to run an import script to generate translation files and then fill in many error prone information. So what I was thinking of was to create a script which will just read a file where each line contains: 1. The component name 2. The base translation file path (english translation file) 3. The repository url It will then create or import the component automatically based on these lines. The downside is that you'll have to modify a file each time you want to create (or delete) a component and you'll have to execute the script from the server. WDYT? Thanks, Adel
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Adel Atallah <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello devs,
I need your opinion on how we should import new components (i.e. translations) into Weblate <http://l10n.xwiki.org>. Weblate allows you to create components directly on their platform but it will be very difficult for us to so because we would have to run an import script to generate translation files and then fill in many error prone information. So what I was thinking of was to create a script which will just read a file where each line contains: 1. The component name 2. The base translation file path (english translation file) 3. The repository url It will then create or import the component automatically based on these lines. The downside is that you'll have to modify a file each time you want to create (or delete) a component and you'll have to execute the script from the server.
Would it be very complex to expose some page with a form with those 3 informations to not have to ssh to the server ? Or at the very least automate the executing of the script when something is added to the file and pushed on https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-dev-tools (or move weblate stuff to a dedicated repository to have less false triggers).
WDYT?
Thanks, Adel
-- Thomas Mortagne
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Adel Atallah <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello devs,
I need your opinion on how we should import new components (i.e. translations) into Weblate <http://l10n.xwiki.org>. Weblate allows you to create components directly on their platform but it will be very difficult for us to so because we would have to run an import script to generate translation files and then fill in many error prone information. So what I was thinking of was to create a script which will just read a file where each line contains: 1. The component name 2. The base translation file path (english translation file) 3. The repository url It will then create or import the component automatically based on these lines. The downside is that you'll have to modify a file each time you want to create (or delete) a component and you'll have to execute the script from the server.
Would it be very complex to expose some page with a form with those 3 informations to not have to ssh to the server ?
I though about it and it's the only user friendly way I can think of.
Or at the very least automate the executing of the script when something is added to the file and pushed on https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-dev-tools (or move weblate stuff to a dedicated repository to have less false triggers).
We could but it as you say it will be better to have this file in another repository.
WDYT?
Thanks, Adel
-- Thomas Mortagne
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