[Qgis-psc] Transifex and translation platform alternatives

[Delaz J]

Hi all,

Just a quick note that OSGeo has an instance of Weblate. And if I'm not 
wrong this is what GRASS and PostGIS are using.

Harrissou

Le 22/08/2022 à 11:57, Régis Haubourg a écrit :
> Hi Tim,
> thanks for raising this rabbit hole issue :)
>
> We have currently more than 1.5 M strings to translate, and we 
> probably need 166K strings  for 1.5M words to handle growth in the 
> next years.
> I know that Harrissou and Matthias mentioned Weblate as an open source 
> alternative.
>
> Looking at the feature grid for Libre projects of Weblate, I'm afraid 
> we will have issues with the limit of 10 000 strings to translate. If 
> we don't want to host it ourselves, we might anyway have to go to 
> paying plans.
>
> Paid plans for transifex will cost a lot too. I see something between 
> 420 € to  1200 $ / month at least, and this depends a lot if they 
> count strings or words as a reference.
>
> I suspect the economic model of cloud weblate would lead us to similar 
> costs.
>
> So, I'd prefer the PSC sponsoring someone to try pontoon or weblate 
> self-hosted alternative.
>
> Régis
>
>
> Le lun. 22 août 2022 à 10:58, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> a écrit :
>
>     Hi all
>
>     RABBIT HOLE WARNING
>
>     So I have been looking over the options we have for doing live
>     translations via transifex or other platforms. I discovered here:
>
>     https://docs.transifex.com/projects/open-source-project
>
>     that we are not really (i.e. not at all) meeting the criteria of
>     Transifex any more. Particularly this one:
>
>     "Transifex offers an Open Source Program to Open Source projects
>     that have *no funding, revenue, and/or commercialization model*.
>     The intent is to support *small* and independent Open Source
>     projects."
>
>     I think we should address this and either a) pay to use transifex
>     or b) look into using an open source alternative like pontoon
>     (https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/). Pontoon looks great and
>     seems to provide quite similar capabilities for the current
>     workflows we have. The gotcha seems to be they really try to nudge
>     you to deploying on heroku which is yet more managed infrastructure.
>
>     Another thing we are wondering is if we can find a system that
>     lets you do live translations like transifex does (we don't
>     currently use the feature but it would let us separate parts of
>     the web site into something more dynamically updatable via a CMS).
>
>     So my questions are:
>
>     * what do we do about transifex terms and conditions?
>     * has anyone looked at alternatives before and come up with a good
>     system?
>     * is there any interest in us hosting our own pontoon instance?
>
>     Regards
>
>     Tim
>
>
>
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