Michal Čihař - Archive for 8/2012

Quite on schedule, Weblate 1.2 has been released today. It comes with lot of improvements, especially for project admins, handling of po files and improved performance.

Full list of changes for 1.2:

• Weblate now uses South for database migration, please check upgrade instructions if you are upgrading.
• Fixed minor issues with linked git repos.
• New introduction page for engaging people with translating using Weblate.
• Added widgets which can be used for promoting translation projects.
• Added option to reset repository to origin (for privileged users).
• Project or subproject can now be locked for translations.
• Possibility to disable some translations.
• Configurable options for adding new translations.
• Configuration of git commits per project.
• Simple antispam protection.
• Better layout of main page.
• Support for automatically pushing changes on every commit.
• Support for email notifications of translators.
• List only used languages in preferences.
• Improved handling of not known languages when importing project.
• Support for locking translation by translator.
• Optionally maintain Language-Team header in po file.
• Include some statistics in about page.
• Supports (and requires) django-registration 0.8.
• Caching of counted units with failing checks.
• Checking of requirements during setup.
• Documentation improvements.

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 can be found 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).

Update: Weblate appliace has been updated to 1.2 as well.

Great effort of new translators finally forced me to release Ukolovnik 1.4. There are only minor bug fixes besides translations updates.

Full list of changes:

• New Spanish translation thanks to Matías Bellone.
• New Portuguese translation thanks to Everton R.
• Mew Chinese translation thanks to Siramizu.
• New Danish translation thanks to Aputsiaq Niels Janussen.
• Make it work without locales at all.

PS: I don't plan any further development of this tool, in fact I have not touched it in last year and I don't expect this to change.

About a month ago, I've spent some time in Nuremberg and took few night pictures there.

As usual, downloading them from my camera took quite long, but nevertheless now there are online:

About month ago, I wrote that there were over 20000 translations done using Weblate in three months. It looks like I was too pessimistic with future as in slightly more than month l10n.cihar.com has reached 30000 translations.

This is quite great achievement and shows big user base. Especially together with rising number of third-party installations of Weblate (still some of the big ones do not want to be mentioned).

On the other side, there have already been around 100 issues open, out of which most were fixed (1.2 release already includes 30 fixed issues). Still I'm sure there is lot of place for improvements :-).

Anyway if you are looking for more numbers, you can find them on Ohloh :-).

More and more people seem to be interested in Weblate and it is becoming less and less comfortable to handle all this communication privately in my mailbox.

That's why I've decided to open up mailing list for Weblate. It is now available at weblate@lists.cihar.com, you can subscribe at https://lists.cihar.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/weblate (request to add this list to Gmane is pending).

I hope this will attract more interested people and open up wider discussion about some features.

PS: Now there is also #weblate on freenode if you are interested in chatting about Weblate.