When do new translations get merged into the main repo?

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Dear devs,

I started adding to the German translation on https://l10n.xwiki.org/ , because there are quite a few things missing in everyday UI.

When will this be merged into your source? Is there a review process?
Because 10.8 will probably release soon and I thing I won’t be done in time.

BR

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We did a merge this morning for XWiki 10.8 so depends if your changes were before or after that ;-

More generally they are merged on the fly when they happen and are thus present in the next release.

Not really. Anyone can review but for German I don’t think anyone from the xwiki dev team speaks it. We do cursory review for the languages we know but apart from this it’s a community-based review, as a best effort. We don’t block if a translation is not reviewed.

To know when a change was committed, I guess you’d need to search the Pull Requests: Pull requests · xwiki/xwiki-platform · GitHub

I don’t know if GH supports searching inside the PRs.

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Actually I can just filter for my user :slight_smile:

Thanks for the quick response.

Offtopic question: I’ve noticed your switch to Weblate recently and reviewed it (using docker of couse :smiley: ) for internal use in our company.

Did you do evalutions before choosing weblate? If so, what pro / cons where there?
There’s a boatload of tools out there…

As always, thanks.

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No formal review. It had the features we wanted, it was maintained and active. We tested it and it was working.

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One important constraint was that XWiki has a huge number of translations which was exploding the quotas of all the online services we looked at so we needed something we could install.

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I’ve personally suggested to xwiki team the use of Weblate to manage translations.
I do use a lot of other online services for translations (transifex, crowdin, getLocalization, …).

I can not speak from a technical point of view (setup, volume limitation, performances, integration with a Version Control System, cross authentification …) but from a user perspective it’s really a great tool. You can contact me if you want more details on Weblate benefits from one of its “free” users ;-).

Regards,