[SAC] Weblate self-hosting proposal

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi,

Excellent suggestion, Sandro! We have too many FOSS projects in Transifex.
If we have a Weblate platform ready to offer, projects like OSGeo Live
could start by using it, instead of Transifex.

Regards,

Jorge Gustavo

On 24-10-2017 20:41, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> I've contacted Michal Čihař who's responsible for the weblate
> hosting solutions documented here: https://weblate.org/en/hosting/#self
> 
> Like we did for website, we could also get help from Weblate
> developers to provide translation infrastructure to OSGeo projects
> (translate.osgeo.org?). A contract of 500EUR/year would give us
> initial installation (with LDAP support) and an upgrade every 6
> months.
> 
> I'd love to have the option to move PostGIS translation from transifex
> (discontinued from being open-source) to OSGeo-hosted Weblate (GPLv3+),
> what would you think about it ?
> 
> Micheal mail follows.
> 
> --strk;
> 
> 
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> 
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:21:07 +0200
> From: Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com>
> To: Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io>
> Subject: Re: Weblate self-hosting
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> 
> Hello
> 
> Thanks for your interest in using Weblate.
> 
> The self-hosted packages are not limited in size (in the end it's using
> your infrastructure), only in amount of support and upgrades you will
> get. So it's really up to you how many projects you will host - you
> will have access to the admin interface and manage projects on your
> own.
> 
> As for LDAP authentication it's supported, I don't think there is easy
> way to map LDAP groups to Weblate ones, what probably could be done is
> limiting access to Weblate to certain group.
> 
> Best regards
> 

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