[guardian-dev] localization of app store texts on Weblate

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

F-Droid and Guardian Project have been working with Weblate to make a
really smooth translation workflow for Android apps, including all the
app store descriptive texts.  There has been much progress the
translation workflow for the app store metadata texts (short
description, full description, "What's New", etc), and we now have a
complete integrated workflow between Google Play, F-Droid, Weblate and
app developers.  The Weblate developers had a key breakthrough that lets
this whole workflow use the same files everywhere. We originally thought
that an extra layer of XLIFF files would be required, with scripts to
convert between XLIFF and the F-Droid/Fastlane/Triple-T formats.

This is part of the "Linguine" cross-project effort to improve
translation workflows, with Weblate being a key component.  Weblate is
tracking related work here:
https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/projects/10#card-13951185

Here are some apps that are now setup with this new workflow:

Checkey
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/checkey
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/checkey-metadata
https://gitlab.com/guardianproject/checkey.git (GitLab, not GitHub)

CircleOf6
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/circleof6
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/circleof6-metadata
https://github.com/guardianproject/OpenCircle.git

F-Droid
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/f-droid
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/f-droid-metadata/

Haven
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/haven
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/haven-metadata
https://github.com/guardianproject/haven.git

Location Privacy
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/locationprivacy
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/locationprivacy-metadata
https://github.com/guardianproject/locationprivacy.git

Ripple
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/ripple
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/ripple-metadata
https://github.com/guardianproject/ripple.git


I think this Weblate support is worth switching for.  For translating
app store texts on other translation platforms, I recommend keeping the
app store texts in XLIFF format, then using our script to convert to
F-Droid/Fastlane file format and then commit those to the project's git.

Here you can compare the XLIFF (with conversion script):
https://github.com/guardianproject/LocationPrivacy/tree/fad6ec142c65694a7b4cfacd32bb1e57e38c386e/description

to the native F-Droid/Fastlane/Weblate format:
https://github.com/guardianproject/LocationPrivacy/tree/master/metadata

.hc


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