Translation using Transifex

seth

Hi,

I have set up Transifex projects for Providence and Pawtucket and uploaded the current en_US locales. There has been some interest in shifting translation work away for POEdit (which is something of a nightmare) to Transifex. If you want to get involved in translating CollectiveAccess into your language create an account on Transifex (http://www.transifex.com) and join the CollectiveAccess organization.

Thanks to everyone (past, present and future!) working on getting CA usable all over the world. Hopefully Transifex will help make the process a bit easier.

seth

gautier

Here is the best place to say it's a great idea, the interface is clear and quite enjoyable on transifex.
Many thanks Seth !

samall

We wanted to start translating but noticed that there is something strange for example User name and Add title are used many times (User name like 241 times) and for really strange things like Delete displays. First I thought it was a mistake by me when I tried to merge the old and new translation so we don't have to translate old things. But when I downloaded the English version I also saw User name 241 times and also in Delete displays:

#: c:\providence/app/conf/user_actions.conf:145
msgid "Delete displays"
msgstr "User name"

Is there something wrong or did I mess up our
translation file?

Thanks,

Sam

kehan

So I've added common differences in spelling for en_AU. It it better to translate all strings copying the original where the translation is the same or to only translate the differences?

As a side note - transifex is nice
Thanks,
K

gautier

samall : I'm checking these duplicate po strings and the "Delete displays" messages.

seth

Kehan: you only need to translate the strings that are different from their en_US equivalents.

samall

Hi Gautier,

Are the duplicate strings fixed on transifex?

Thanks

Sam

gautier

Hi Sam,

It's quite weird : those strings were inside first github version of en_US.po.
You can see it at :
https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence/blob/68e5709dc2ef83ccbd88c2d30ad160fa47b6c825/app/locale/en_US/messages.po

l.345 and next :
#: c:\providence/app/controllers/find/SearchEntitiesAdvancedController.php:73
#, fuzzy
msgid "displayname"
msgstr "User name"

#: c:\providence/app/controllers/find/SearchEntitiesController.php:71
msgid "surname, forename"
msgstr ""

#: c:\providence/app/controllers/find/SearchEntitiesController.php:72
#, fuzzy
msgid "forename"
msgstr "User name"

I'm removing those weird translations from en_US.po. I'll make a pull request for Seth in the next minutes. Sorry for the delay.

gautier

The problem was in pawtucket too.

Ref to pull requests :
https://github.com/collectiveaccess/pawtucket/pull/7
https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence/pull/48

I'm not administrator for providence & pawtucket en_US translations, I can't update those on transifex [and here comes seth ;-)]

If you want to download them now, there updated po files are at :
http://tinyurl.com/prov-en-us
http://tinyurl.com/paw-en-us
They will be available at http://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence when Seth will accept the pull request.

samall

Great! Thanks for all the work. I'll wait for Seth to update it. So it follows the right workflow.

Sam

seth

They're both merged. And Transifex is configured to pull changes from GitHub, so presumably all of these updates will filter into Transifex from GitHub in the next day.

Thanks for fixing this Gautier!

marcolino

Does CollectiveAcces automatically pulls from Transifex, or do we have to issue a pull reguest to CA github, when done with a translation session?

seth

You have to tell us if you want to see it in GitHub.

dominikmatus

Hello, transifex says the source for translation is from 2015. It is updated?

seth

Not lately (but more recently than 2015 :-)
We're working on automating these updates

VaclavCerny

Hello @seth,
according to https://docs.transifex.com/transifex-github-integrations/github-tx-ui
it should be really straightforward to configure transifex to pull translation source changes from github on regular basis and
push changes or create pull requests on demand, on completed review, on completed taranslation and so on.

Is there any reason, why it is not configured in that way?
Can i help with it ( e.g. create relevant configs and test it on my fork)?

My PR mktrans.sh was created to make translation source preparation realy easy.

seth

The only reason is time. There's no one here with the time to deal with it. If you'd want to take that one it would be very much appreciated.

VaclavCerny

After few test runs i have prepared small guide, setup takes 5 minutes, (it will run longer but ou dont need to watch it)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QNK9X2--sw98qEJ3hrr3457-y1hJGCSqsKX_STeSVyA/edit?usp=sharing

seth

Thanks for taking the time to create the guide. Someone will work through it (probably me) in the coming days.

seth

Integrations have been set up.

VaclavCerny

Thank you.