Allow translation using an online service

[davemds]

Allow translation using an online service

[DaveMDS]

Thanks for the suggestion, I never used Transifex.

I just set up a project there:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/epymc/

but I cannot make it work with the current epymc code, because I do not store the original pot file in the source... I need to change that to make transifex work :(

[J5lx]

Ok. I already requested to add the german language so I can start right away once you get it working 😉 But don’t feel pressured. I’ll find other projects to translate in the meantime :)

[DaveMDS]

I made some progress in transifex.
The pot file is uploaded now and should automatically update from github.

I uploaded the Italian translation... but I'm not getting how the workflow is supposed to be.
I made some changes to the Italian translation online, now, how that changes is supposed to merge with the epymc source on github? I need to manually download the po file, put it in sources and commit?

I need to manually download (and commit) every langs everytime someone made a change ?
I'm a bit confused...

btw, I accepted you German translation, I think you can start working on it :)

[J5lx]

I don’t know exactly how the Transifex workflow is supposed to be, but you definitely don’t need to "manually download (and commit) every langs everytime someone made a change". AFAIK most people merge the translations when new versions are going to be released.

[DaveMDS]

I see you have done 50% of the translation works, Thanks!

To be honest I'm not liking so much how transifex works in general, the editor is really slow (poedit is way much better and confortable) and I don't like the fact that you can not try the translation in the app in "realtime". How can you write good translations if you don't see them in the program?

Also having to merge the translations on transifex to the source code is much work to me, work that I cannot test well as I don't know the language... I think I prefer the "old" way of translate: get the source, translate, test and then give the final po to me in some way.

For the moment I will keep the transifex project up, too see how people react...and to use your german translation :) but I'm not sure I will keep it up for long time... let's see how it will work

[J5lx]

poedit is way much better and confortable

No problem - Transifex can be used seemlessly with any offline editor:

1. On the project overview click on the language you want to translate to
2. Then click on the file you want to translate (epymc.pot in this case)
3. Click on "Download for translation" (should be "Scarica per la traduzione" in Italian)
4. Translate the file in an editor of your choice
5. Click on "Upload file"/"Carica file" to upload your translations on Transifex

As you can see, it’s no problem to translate the old way on Transifex.

get the source, translate, test and then give the final po to me in some way.

except that "in some way" is now much easier 😉

[DaveMDS]

So, at the end I really don't like transiflex, and noone is using it anymore
I will drop the support for transiflex