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Add Decisions to Weblate to promote localization

Open StoyanDimitrov opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Have you ever thought about using a translation platform to handle app translations?

I can warmly recommend Weblate. It is provided free of charge for FLOSS projects.

Weblate itself is FLOSS too. It is a home for many well known open source projects like F-Droid, OsmAnd, KOReader, DAVx5, Tasks.org, AndrOBD, Minetest, Orbot, Freedombox, and many, many others.

After the initial project setup it is a matter of a push to send new strings to translators and a pull to get the latest translated strings back. That's the manual mode…

The project has to apply (https://hosted.weblate.org/hosting/) for the free service, providing some data proving FOSS license and such but is simple and for about a week (most of the time few days) the application (let's hope for) is approved. While the application is being reviewed the project is accessible to translators with a warning at the top of the page explaining that the project is not approved yet.

I'm asking because I want to continue translating Decisions and this will greatly improve my and other translators' workflow and will ease onboarding new fellow contributors. Plus, Weblate handles fastlane meta too.

StoyanDimitrov avatar May 24 '23 10:05 StoyanDimitrov

Sounds good! I will give it try as soon as I can.

I've once tried another translation service for some other app of mine, and that didn't went too well, unfortunately. But that was some time ago, and I'm always happy to try new things so thank you for the recommendation!

markusfisch avatar May 26 '23 16:05 markusfisch