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#1 2015-02-22 14:36:15

mistic100
Former Piwigo Team
Lyon (FR)
2008-09-27
3277

From Lexiglot to Weblate

Dear translators, dear ddtddt :-)

English :

I discovered a few days ago a Python software named Weblate. It's a translation platform, just like Lexiglot, but far far away in term of functionnalities and performances.

I am currently investigating if this piece of software can fully replace Lexiglot, without any definitive plans for now.
Why ? well because I don't want to spend time on Lexiglot but it has some bugs and lacks functionalities you translators had asked (dictionnary, glossary, automatic notifications, etc).

For what I saw Weblate is very very promising (you can test the demo on their website). I have only two problems:
- does not integrate with SVN (only Git and Mercurial), this is of course a big concern, because even if we migrate Piwigo core to Github (see [Forum, topic 24695] Switching to Git / GitHub?), many plugins will stay on the Subversion repository
I am currently working on this feature (a bit hard, Python is not my favorite language)
- "projects" can only contain one file (plugin.lang.php for example), I still don't know how to handle out projects (plugins) with multiple files

And icing on the cake, the project is very active : https://github.com/nijel/weblate/commits/master

Do you think it's a good idea ?

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French :

J'ai découvert il y a quelques un logiciel Python nommé Weblate. C'est une plateforme de traduction, tout comme Lexiglot et bien supérieure en terme de fonctionnalités et performances

Je suis actuellement entrain de voir si ce logiciel peut totalement remplacer Lexiglot.
Pourquoi ? parce que j'ai n'ai plus l'envie de passer du temps sur Lexiglot et qu'il contient encore de bugs et manque de plusieurs fonctions demandées par les traducteurs (dictionnaire, glossaire, notifications automatiques, etc).

De ce que j'en ai vu, c'est très très prométeur (vous pouvez tester la démo sur leur site). J'ai juste deux problèmes :
- ne prend pas en charge SVN (seulement Git et Mercurial). c'est évidement un gros problème parce que même si on migre le core Piwigo vers Github (voir [Forum, topic 24695] Switching to Git / GitHub?), de nombreux plugins restent sur le dépôt SVN
je bosse actuellement sur cette fonctionnalité
- les "sous-projets" ne peuvent contenir qu'un seul fichier (plugin.lang.php par exemple), je ne sais pas encore comment faire pour nos plugins avec plusieurs fichiers

Et cerise sur le gâteau, le projet est très actif : https://github.com/nijel/weblate/commits/master

Pensez vous que c'est une bonne idée ?

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#2 2015-02-23 19:25:29

mistic100
Former Piwigo Team
Lyon (FR)
2008-09-27
3277

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

ddtddt I know part of your workflow but if there are parts you think are important, please tell me

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ddtddt je connais une partie de ton workflow mais si tu penses qu'il y a des éléments importants, dis le moi

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#3 2015-02-23 19:54:47

flop25
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2006-07-06
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Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

seriously great ; I've seen great features like autocorrect/quality check
Pierrick could help for py ^^


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#4 2015-02-23 20:01:31

mistic100
Former Piwigo Team
Lyon (FR)
2008-09-27
3277

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

That's not what he said me. He knows Perl very well, not Python

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#5 2015-03-05 11:32:56

bigant
Member
Switzerland
2014-11-10
8

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

There a quite a few web translation services i.e.
http://zanata.org/
http://pootle.translatehouse.org/
https://www.transifex.com/

Maybe worth to compare with weblate, just my 2 cents :)

Cheers,
Roman

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#6 2015-05-12 11:10:47

nicophotographies
Member
1970-01-01
10

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

Can you give us some news about this project ?

Peux tu nous donner des nouvelles de ce projet ?

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#7 2015-05-12 11:33:32

mistic100
Former Piwigo Team
Lyon (FR)
2008-09-27
3277

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

I don't have time to create the SVN connector (and seriously I hate Python)

And ddtddt didn't gave his point of view.

So it's nowhere.

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#8 2015-05-13 11:58:25

mistic100
Former Piwigo Team
Lyon (FR)
2008-09-27
3277

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

Transcription of what ddtddt said to me :

- I don't think I have the patience to master a new plateform
- I am afraid some or many translators will quit when we ask them to register elsewhere and chnage their habits
- The fact that we can't have multiple files in a project is a real problem

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#9 2015-05-13 12:27:53

nicophotographies
Member
1970-01-01
10

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

Thank you for your answer.

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#10 2022-05-31 23:17:33

jose1711
Member
2021-06-07
12

Re: From Lexiglot to Weblate

*sigh* .. i wish there is a more modern tool to translate. i am actually considering suspending all my translating activities because the current tool is really basic and makes translating much more difficult than it needs to be.

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