Michal Čihař - Archive for Oct. 7, 2013

First day of hackweek did not really go as planned. I had to spend too much time on tasks which I did not now I will have to do in advance.

I've started with releasing Weblate 1.7. As a part of that I update SUSE Studio images with Weblate. Unfortunately this turned out to be more challenging than usual as with new version the build script always failed but without any obvious error. After some time, I've realized that it just does not show whole output, so the last (and most important) lines are missing.

Then it was easy to spot that the problem is in Whoosh version and it's just matter of providing newer version.

After fixing the image, I could finally focus on Weblate's issue tracker and resolved few issues and questions. I've also improved some of the in application documentation and links to documentation or other resources.

Meanwhile I could also setup translation hosting for monkeysign, happy translating!

Weblate 1.7 has been released today. It comes with lot of improvements, especially in translation speed and many new features.

Full list of changes for 1.7:

• Please check manual for upgrade instructions.
• Support for checking Python brace format string.
• Per subproject customization of quality checks.
• Detailed per translation stats.
• Changed way of linking suggestions, checks and comments to units.
• Users can now add text to commit message.
• Support for subscribing on new language requests.
• Support for adding new translations.
• Widgets and charts are now rendered using Pillow instead of Pango + Cairo.
• Add status badge widget.
• Dropped invalid text direction check.
• Changes in dictionary are now logged in history.
• Performance improvements for translating view.

You can find more information about Weblate on it's website, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Ready to run appliances will be soon available in SUSE Studio Gallery.

Weblate is also being used https://l10n.cihar.com/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and others.

If you are free software project which would like to use Weblate, I'm happy to help you with set up or even host Weblate for you.

Further development of Weblate would not be possible without people providing donations, thanks to everybody who have helped so far!