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Next round of phpMyAdmin 4.0 translation status report is coming.

So let's look at which translations are at 100% right now:

• Czech
• Dutch
• English (United Kingdom)
• Galician
• Greek
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish

There are also several languages which need just few strings to be complete:

• Danish
• Estonian
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Slovenian
• Swedish

As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 4.0 using translation server.

If your language is already fully translated and you want to help as well, you can translate our documentation as well.

Finally, phpMyAdmin packages for Debian and Ubuntu do not lag much behind upstream. Today, I've prepared packages for yesterday released bug fix release 3.5.6.

For Debian users, the package should be soon available in experimental (sorry no uploads to unstable during freeze).

Ubuntu users, can use my phpMyAdmin PPA. After dozens of comments and no help offered, I've still decided to be nice to Ubuntu users and adjusted the package so that it should work on Lucid as well. The downside is that, unlike in Debian, the package includes bundled copy of many PHP and javascript libraries.

PS: As soon as Debian is not frozen or 4.0 is officially released, I will start uploading 4.0 to experimental. My current bet is that 4.0 release will come earlier.

We've spent last weekend in Lusatian Mountains. It was cold and not so nice weather, but still I think some of the pictures are worth publishing.

It took me some time, but finally updated appliances with Weblate are available. As usual, it was built using SUSE Studio.

The appliance allows you to test Weblate without installation, everything is setup to work out of the box. However if you want to use it in production setup, few adjustments are recommended.

Weblate 1.4 has been released today. It comes with lot of improvements, especially in configurability, admin interface and usability.

Full list of changes for 1.4:

• Fixed deleting of checks/comments on unit deletion.
• Added option to disable automatic propagation of translations.
• Added option to subscribe for merge failures.
• Correctly import on projects which needs custom ttkit loader.
• Added sitemaps to allow easier access by crawlers.
• Provide direct links to string in notification emails or feeds.
• Various improvements to admin interface.
• Provide hints for production setup in admin interface.
• Added per language widgets and engage page.
• Improved translation locking handling.
• Show code snippets for widgets in more variants.
• Indicate failing checks or fuzzy strings in progressbars.
• More options for formatting commit message.
• Fixed error handling with machine translation services.
• Improved automatic translation locking behaviour.
• Support for showing changes from previous source string.
• Added support for substring search.
• Various quality checks improvements.
• Support for per project ACL.
• Basic unit tests coverage.

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 (this will be decided case by case as my hosting space is limited).

With release of first alpha for phpMyAdmin 4.0, it's time to resurrect my regular translation status posts.

So let's look at which translations are at 100% right now:

• Czech
• English (United Kingdom)
• Galician
• Greek
• Spanish
• Turkish

There are also several languages which need just few strings to be complete:

• Danish
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Swedish

As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 4.0 using translation server.

If your language is already fully translated and you want to help as well, you can translate our documentation as well.

As usual, I've changed my plans for Weblate 1.4. Simply before I got to implementing features I wanted to have there, I've already implemented bunch of other things, which are worth releasing.

So my plan is to release Weblate 1.4 next week with current feature set (you can check list of fixed issues) and focus on 1.5 development then.

Some major features which will be available in Weblate 1.4:

• Added various configuration options to allow more customization.
• Added sitemaps to allow easier access by crawlers.
• Improved notification emails (added links and HTML version with colored diff).
• Provide hints for production setup in admin interface.
• Indicate failing checks or fuzzy strings in progressbars.
• Support for per project ACL.

As a clear consequence, some of the big features were moved to 1.5, but I've added also some other things I'd like to implement, see 1.5 milestone on GitHub.

There is finally winter in Prague. And even more special - I've managed to wake up early to get some nice pictures from downtown.

Most of them are from this week, but the first one is from December:

I've got yet another question whether Weblate has any sort for ACL to limit access to project. As usual, my answer was no, but I started to think how I would implement such feature.

After a little bit of thinking and playing with code, I've realized, that this is not that hard as I thought and implemented it in few minutes. So there is another ofter requested feature which will come in Weblate 1.4 - ACL.

It provides simple way to limit access to some projects to some users. The default behavior is still that anybody logged in can do anything, but this can be changed per project by enabling ACL for it. More details are available in our documentation.

phpMyAdmin just got a new theme. It's available for download on our themes page.

New theme reflects look of new Windows and I have to admit it looks quite nice:

As you can see, it also offers four color variants, configurable in it's layout.inc.php file.

PS: More details on theme can be found on deviantART.