Michal Čihař - Archive for 5/2018

Improved Docker container for Weblate

The Docker container for Weblate got several improvements in past days and if you're using it, it might be worth reviewing your setup.

It has been upgraded to Python 3 and Django 2. This should cause no problems as Weblate itself supports both for quite some time, but if you were extending Weblate somehow, you might have to update these extensions to make them compatible.

The default cache backend is now redis. It will be required in future for some features, so you will have to switch at some point anyway. The memcached support is still there in case you want to stick with current setup.

Cron jobs have been integrated into the main container. So you no longer need to trigger them externally. This save quite some pain with offloaded indexing and another features which rely on regular execution.

Another important change is in logging - all logs are now go to the standard output, so you will get them by docker-compose logs and other Docker management commands. This will make debugging easier.

New projects on Hosted Weblate

Hosted Weblate provides also free hosting for free software projects. The hosting requests queue has grown too long and waited for more than month, so it's time to process it and include new projects. I hope that gives you have good motivation to spend Christmas break by translating free software.

This time, the newly hosted projects include:

  • ASS Danmaku - firefox extension for downloading danmaku
  • KeePass DX - KeePass implementation for Android
  • Liberapay Everywhere - the official Liberapay browser extension
  • Offline QR Code Generator - browser add-on allowing you to quickly generate a QR code
  • Guake - drop-down terminal for GNOME
  • Planner - Project and Task manager designed for elementary OS
  • EasySSH - The SSH connection manager to make your life easier.
  • Misskey - A Twitter-like SNS
  • Starke Verben - Android Application to learn your strong verbs
  • FMIT - Free Music Instrument Tuner
  • Crappy Firetitle - A firefox extension allowing customisation of windows' title
  • Piano Booster - a MIDI file player that displays the musical notes AND teaches you how to play the piano

If you want to support this effort, please donate to Weblate, especially recurring donations are welcome to make this service alive. You can do that easily on Liberapay or Bountysource.