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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

There is another technical problem that putting the translations into the
main repo can help solve - it will allow for easy internationalization of
our Linux and macOS metadata files. The way those files are setup requires
that the file be used when actually generating the resulting translated
string files (or in the case of the linux metadata files - the translated
strings are placed directly inside the same metadata file). Having the
translations po files in the main repo will allow for a very seamless
integration of these metadata files into our translation system - so then
translators can translate their fields without having to modify all the
files individually. With the translations split into a separate repo, this
becomes more difficult to implement in CMake because we have to teach the
code where it can find the po files to generate the installable metadata
files.

-Ian

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 7:02 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't really see it as an advantage as such to move it into the kicad
> source. Why do we technically need that to use weblate?
>
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 19:31, Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I have no objections.  It makes sense to combine those repos.
>>
>>         Steve
>>
>> On 10/17/20 11:08 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>> > Hi All-
>> >
>> > Currently, and for some time, our translations of KiCad have lived in a
>> separate repository from the codebase.  I'd like to merge the translations
>> into the KiCad codebase in a subdirectory called "translation"
>> >
>> > This will allow our translators to only have to check out a single
>> repository instead of two.  This will also allow us to begin using an
>> online collaborative translation platform called Weblate[1] that is used by
>> Fedora, openSUSE, LibreOffice, etc.  The online translation system is
>> optional, translators are not required to use it, but it does add a number
>> of useful features and quality checks.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have objections to moving the i18n repository into a
>> subdirectory of the source code repository or know of a reason why we
>> shouldn't?
>> >
>> > Best-
>> > Seth
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