Translating IPFire with Weblate

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello boys and girls,

I would like to pre-announce that I have installed a new translation system.

This is a problem that has been bothering me for quite a while because people in many places around the world are using IPFire and they should be able to use it in a language that is most easy for them. However, of course nobody of us can translate to all those languages ourselves. So we need the help from our community!

Editing files is boring, but everyone likes a great webUI.

In the past we have been using Transifex which was very nice, but has gone proprietary.

Then I tried Pootle, but that was a bit of a pain to run and I think I never set it up all the way, because it just was too buggy.

And since we are busy reinstalling all the things, it was a good time to review everything again.

This time, I tried Weblate: https://translate.ipfire.org/

This is a Django app and has builtin support for Git. Importing the repositories was quick and easy. I have not idea how to programmatically get it back into the repositories again because I do not want to give that application permissions to push into our repositories. So if anyone has some free time and write a script to download the PO files I would appreciate that very much :)

Apart from that, it would be nice for you guys to log in, test this - I did not spend too much time on that yet. And if it is all alright, I want to announce it to our community.

Best,
-Michael