Replace pootle by weblate

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The Poolte setup has always been difficult to maintain and update. Its develop has stagnated for a long time. Also the checks provide by the current version are not complete enough as issue8057 showed.
I think we should switch to Weblate which seems to be more active and provide a Docker image.
The structure of the translation repository should be changed to be compatible with weblate. I made a prototype here: http://hg.tryton.org/sandbox/weblate/. And so the scripts in tryton-tools should also be updated. By it is nothing too difficult. According to the documentation, it is possible to migrate the Pootle user to Weblate.

So I propose that the switch happens just after a release (e.g. 5.2) to ensure that we do not loose translation proposals.

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If we can avoid having this kind of issues I think it’s worth migrating.

That makes completely sense. Migrating just after the release is a must for me.

I imagine we will maintain the same workflow of updating the translations every month so we can start translating before the feature freeze.

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Yes but Weblate commit frequently to the repository when some translations have been done.

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The server is ready on https://translate.tryton.org/
I could not migrate the existing user from Pootle to Weblate, so I will write an email on the announce mailing list requesting people to register again (trying to use the same username as on bugs.tryton.org).
Before that I finish to test the update_translations script.

Also about user management, by default any registered user can make suggestions. I created a group per language for translator of this language. But there is no more the possibility to give management right to only a language. So the administrators will have to manage the access rights of every users.

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The change has been announced: https://www.mail-archive.com/announces@tryton.org/msg00133.html

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Can I get more rights for portuguese? I just registered on the new platform with fmorato.
Thank you

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Done but it would have been better to follow https://www.mail-archive.com/announces@tryton.org/msg00133.html

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Hi! weblate interface seems to be more friendly than pootle. The only stuff that its not working for es_419 languange is when you want to susggest an empty chain. Why do I want to do such thing? As we know es_419 is a derative language from es. So, sometimes I do want to remove the translation on es_419 so the chain of the father (es) can be used. Perhpas, if I have more access rights, I can save an empty chain without the suggest process.

Cheers!

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What is not working?

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Hi! If I want to saved an empty chain, it throws a message saying that the suggestion cannot be empty. The system is better than pootle, because it display the translation from es language. So I can check if the language from es is right and suggest to leave translation at es_419 empty.

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I guess it is because you are doing suggestion. Probably with translator rights, it will work.

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Can I get more rights for Polish? My nick is wowar. At the Pootle I was the administrator of Polish.

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It is done now, you should be allowed to translate.