The translation workflow isn't optimal

[Changaco]

Issues with Weblate:

• its locking can be annoying (Improve auto locking WeblateOrg/weblate#245)
• I had to hack my way around its lack of a proper review system
• its UI doesn't give us links to the source code where the message appears, because we strip that metadata from the .po files to avoid Git noise
• its UI doesn't provide a way to run a spellcheck of all strings in a particular language (Implement spellchecking all translations in a particular language WeblateOrg/weblate#977)
• if we don't do things in exactly the right order we end up with Git conflicts, because Weblate generates commits continuously instead of only when you actually need them
• when working on a new string it doesn't search the repo's history for strings close to it

[Changaco]

There's something else bothering me: why don't we have easy i18n of simple strings like button labels? Those translations have been done lots of times already in other projects, we shouldn't have to spend time on them.

[Changaco]

A translator working while I was reviewing and merging translations has led to a git conflict. :-/

[Changaco]

The worst part: the conflict was only in those fucking useless PO file headers.

[agateblue]

Regarding the merge conflict issue, maybe this kind of setup could offer a solution ?

[Changaco]

It looks similar to what we do now, except we don't put a lock. We also don't use a script to merge PO headers (it's rare enough to be handled manually).

We can't automatically push new translations to master because we need to review them first (we use Git's builtin tools to do that since Weblate doesn't give us a way to do it).

[Changaco]

Weblate 2.18 introduces a review system and replaces the locking system with conflict detection.

[jorgesumle]

One thing that could be improved is adding an explanation. That could be of help in strings like this, where some translators translated the article title, which in my opinion is not the proper approach. The explanation could here say "the article is only in English. Do not translate the title. If you want, add the language of the linked article as an clarification".