Re: [Tails-l10n] Pootle

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Hi,

intrigeri:
> I know that quite some effort was put into Weblate already, but in the
> end it seems that it's more complicated to integrate into our workflow
> than what we once believed. So I thought I would mention here that
> a friend of mine recently asked me why we are not using Pootle [1].
> I'm told it's a more mature solution than Weblate. We quickly went
> through our specification [2] and apparently it's good for almost all
> MUST:s, and many of our SHOULD:s.
>
> Only one MUST is maybe not supported yet: "make it easy to view the
> translations in context i.e. when translating an entire page, all
> strings to be translated should only come from this page.
> translators should be able to view the page in context"; we didn't
> spend any time seeing if this could be tweaked though (just looked at
> the default configuration on an existing Pootle instance), and last
> time I checked, Weblate had some limitations in this area too.
>
> So perhaps it would be sound to check if the current problems we have
> with Weblate would be solved by Pootle in a better way. I'm sure
> I lack the big picture, so really this is just for what it's worth :)


I've tried Pootle in the past, and I'm sure it has gotten better.
The interface looks similar to Weblate but a bit easier.

I'm in favour of trying it again. I've created
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/11104 for tracking.

Cheers!