Michal Čihař - Archive for Nov. 16, 2012

Weblate 1.3

Quite on updated schedule (ie. one month later than originally planned), Weblate 1.3 has been released today. It comes with lot of improvements, especially in support of non gettext files, new quality checks and improved performance.

Full list of changes for 1.3:

  • Compatibility with PostgreSQL database backend.
  • Removes languages removed in upstream git repository.
  • Improved consistency checks processing.
  • Added new checks (BB code, XML markup and newlines).
  • Support for optional rebasing instead of merge.
  • Possibility to relocate Weblate (eg. to run it under /weblate path).
  • Support for manually choosing file type in case autodetection fails.
  • Better support for Android resources.
  • Support for generating SSH key from web interface.
  • More visible data exports.
  • New buttons to enter some special characters.
  • Support for exporting dictionary.
  • Support for locking down whole Weblate installation.
  • Checks for source strings and support for source strings review.
  • Support for user comments for both translations and source strings.
  • Better changes log tracking.
  • Changes can now be monitored using RSS.
  • Improved support for RTL languages.

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).

Key signing done

As I've mentioned before, there was a keysigning party in Prague yesterday. Though we were afraid that not so many people will arrive, in the end I have signed 19 keys and assured 13 people for CAcert.

The nice outcome of this is that I can now give up to 25 points when assuring for CAcert and altogether we are able to give you over 50 points in the Prague SUSE office.

Unfortunately this also reminded me my problems with Unicode on CAcert and quick look at the bug tracker showed me that my bugs 769 and 770 are still open, valid and did not receive any attention :-(.

PS: Of course after key signing, we had some fun with the openSUSE beer.