Michal Čihař - Archive for Jan. 1, 2015

The python-suseapi 0.22 has been released last week. The version number shows nothing special, but one important change has happened - the development repository has been moved.

It's now under openSUSE project on GitHub, what makes it easier to find for potential users and also makes team maintenance a bit easier than under my personal account.

If you're curious what the module does - it's mostly usable only inside SUSE, providing access to some internal services. One major thing usable outside is the Bugzilla interface, which should be at one day replaced by python-bugzilla, but for now provides some features not available there (using web scraping).

Anyway the code has documentation on readhtedocs.org, so you can figure out yourself what it includes.

I've just released new version of imap-utils. Main reason for new release was change on PyPI which now needs files to be hosted there.

However the new release also comes with other changes:

• Changed license to GPL3+.
• Various coding style fixes.

Also this is first release done from Git repository hosted on GitHub.

Weblate 2.4 has been released today. It comes with extended support for various file formats, extended hook scripts, better keyboard shortcuts and dozen of bug fixes.

Full list of changes for 2.4:

• Improved support for PHP files.
• Ability to add ACL to anonymous user.
• Improved configurability of import_project command.
• Added CSV dump of history.
• Avoid copy/paste errors with whitespace chars.
• Added support for Bitbucket webhooks.
• Tigher control on fuzzy strings on translation upload.
• Several URLs have changed, you might have to update your bookmarks.
• Hook scripts are executed with VCS root as current directory.
• Hook scripts are executed with environment variables descriping current component.
• Add management command to optimize fulltext index.
• Added support for error reporting to Rollbar.
• Projects now can have multiple owners.
• Project owners can manage themselves.
• Added support for javascript-format used in Gettext PO.
• Support for adding new translations in XLIFF.
• Improved file format autodetection.
• Extended keyboard shortcuts.
• Improved dictionary matching for several languages.
• Improved layout of most of pages.
• Support for adding words to dictionary while translating.
• Added support for filtering languages to be managed by Weblate.
• Added support for translating and importing CSV files.
• Rewritten handling of static files.
• Direct login/registration links to third party service if that's the only one.
• Commit pending changes on account removal.
• Add management command to change site name.
• Add option to confiugure default committer.
• Add hook after adding new translation.
• Add option to specify multiple files to add to commit.

If you are upgrading from older version, please follow our upgrading instructions.

You can find more information about Weblate on http://weblate.org, 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.

Weblate is also being used https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and other projects.

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!

PS: The roadmap for next release is just being prepared, you can influence this by expressing support for individual issues either by comments or by providing bounty for them.

Weblate is not only useful for translating software, it can help in translating any content. Let's look where our users are using it.

Software translation is the most usual use case. This is actually where Weblate was used for first time and still provides great support for that. As an example (and oldest project hosted in Weblate) you can look at phpMyAdmin, where Weblate also helps to keep in sync translation for different maintenance branches. It can also help you in using same terminology in command line utility and graphical one like it is done in Gammu and Wammu translations.

Weblate also supports localization of mobile application. Android support was originally implemented for OsmAnd project, but now they also translate iOS application using Weblate.

Another use case is for translating documentation. You need to have some infrastructure to do, but there are several free software project to help here as well. For phpMyAdmin documentation or documentation for python module Odorik the Sphinx documentation generator is used, which has support for translation of the documentation. I've recently published quick howto for this setup. Another great tool for translating documentation is Publican, it is Docbook based tool and is used for translating The Debian Administrator's Handbook.

Last but not least, you can use Weblate to translate your website. For example website for Weblate itself is translated this way.

Did you miss your use case for Weblate? Please let me know.

PS: I've heard that one Linux distribution will start using Weblate soon.

Some time ago we've decided to move phpMyAdmin out of SourceForge.net services. This was mostly motivated by issues with sf.net bundling crapware with installers (though we were not affected), but also we've missed some features that we would like to have and were not possible there.

The project relied on SourceForge.net with several services. The biggest ones being website and downloads hosting, issue tracking and mailing lists. We've chosen different approach for each of these.

As first, we've moved away website and downloads. Thanks to generous offer of CDN77.com, everything went quite smoothly and we now have HTTPS secured website and downloads, see our announcement. Oh and on the way we've started to PGP sign the releases as well, so you can verify the download.

Shortly after this SourceForge.net was hit by major problems with infrastructure. Unfortunately we were not yet completely ready with rest of the migration, but this has definitely pushed us to make progress faster.

During the outage, we've opened up issue tracker on GitHub, to be able to receive bug reports from our users. On the background I've worked on the issue migration. The good news is that as of now almost all issues are migrated. There are few missing ones, but these will be hopefully handled in upcoming days as well.

Last but not least, we had mailing lists on SourceForge.net. We've shortly discussed available options and decided to run own mail server with these. It will allow us greater flexibility while still using well know software in background. Initial attempts with Mailman 3 failed, so we got back to Mailman 2, which is stable and easy to configure. See also our news posts for official announcement.

Thanks to SourceForge.net, it has been great home for us, but now we have better places to live.

Yesterday, Wammu 0.39 has been released.

The list of changes is not really huge:

• Fixed connecting to phone with no SMSC set.
• Various code cleanups.
• Translation updates.

I will not make any promises for future releases (if there will be any) as the tool is not really in active development.

Dnes jsem vydal novou verzi Python modulu Odorik. Přidává vylepšení hlavně při vypisování hovorů:

• Přeložena dokumentace do češtiny.
• Podrobnější souhrny pro hovory a zprávy.
• Přidána možnost filtrovat hovory podle stavu a směru.

Dokumentace přeložená do češtiny za použití Weblate.

Up to recently, the only social presence for Weblate was my personal Twitter account. It's time to change that.

You can now follow news and information about Weblate on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

New version of python-gammu has been released yesterday.

The most important change is that it changes license to GNU GPL version 2 or later. This is only cosmetic change and mostly affects only Python code as the C side can not really be changed due to Gammu license.

Full list of changes:

• License changed tp GPL version 2 or later.
• Documentation improvements.

Weblate 2.3 has been released today. It comes with better features for project owners, better file formats support and more configuration options for users.

Full list of changes for 2.3:

• Dropped support for Django 1.6 and South migrations.
• Support for adding new translations when using Java Property files
• Allow to accept suggestion without editing.
• Improved support for Google OAuth2.
• Added support for Microsoft .resx files.
• Tuned default robots.txt to disallow big crawling of translations.
• Simplified workflow for accepting suggestions.
• Added project owners who always receive important notifications.
• Allow to disable editing of monolingual template.
• More detailed repository status view.
• Direct link for editing template when changing translation.
• Allow to add more permissions to project owners.
• Allow to show secondary language in zen mode.
• Support for hiding source string in favor of secondary language.

You can find more information about Weblate on http://weblate.org, 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.

Weblate is also being used https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and other projects.

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!

PS: The roadmap for next release is just being prepared, you can influence this by expressing support for individual issues either by comments or by providing bounty for them.