The libvirt project is now converted to use Weblate for translation. Weblate has its own fork of libvirt git repos.
With weblate managing translations, NEVER, under any circumstances should anyone change the .po files in libvirt.git directly. This will result in merge conflicts with Weblate that need tedious manual resolution. Any .po file changes must always be done via the Weblate UI. Changes made in the weblate UI are not committed to its fork immediately. Weblate will wait upto 24 hours before committing. It will keep changes by each translator as separate commits, and will add SoB lines to them. When it has commits ready, it opens a merge request in GitLab. If it has more commits later and the merge request is still open, it will just push to the pre-existing merge request instead of opening a new one. What this means is that if we immediately approve & merge a weblate merge request, it'll likely open a new one the very next day. I don't think we want to be opening & closing 30 merge requests a month for translations. Thus I'm suggesting that we leave weblate merge requests open to accumulate new commits. Only approve & merge them during the freeze period. Any time we update the libvirt.pot, weblate will msgmerge all the .po files and submit them back to libvirt. These are going to be quite large commits. My intention is to only update the libvirt.pot at the time that we start the release freeze period. This leaves a week to receive new translations, during which time libvirt strings shouldn't be changing much anyway, since we're in bugfix only mode. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
