#musicbrainz

Would it be possible to move the translations to Weblate? I can't contribute anymore since it is on Transifex.

Don't think this deserves to be voted down: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/70021193

comradekingu: This has been suggested before: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metab...

So that's why artists want to remove their stuff: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/70100251

Hi comradekingu, out of curiosity, what keeps you away from Transifex?

transifex is buggy af

the argument zas had about losing some peopel if we move is valid one. but imho it's als othat severla new people will coem aboard too imho

(also i can't use trasnifex. not even n chrome)

There are issues, that’s sure. I was interested to read specifically what pushed comradekingu away.

FWiW, I use Transifex regularly, using Firefox.

There are mostly a few regular translators, and sometimes new ones joining localization teams.

yvanzo: I can't accept their updated terms and agreements (following EU-GDPR) since it would dual-license all my work. It amounts to quite a lot.

Hosted Weblate has all the good libre software translators, more activity, and a much better community collectively.

There is always the sentiment that moving would lose something, but always the counterfactual gains.

comradekingu: How much trouble would it be to move all existing workflows over? I think that’d be the primary issue.

sorely*

First submit a request https://hosted.weblate.org/hosting/ and then point the admin panel to the different files, freeze in Transifex, and take it from there

comradekingu: Thank you for sharing this licensing issue we were not aware of. Is it this condition? https://community.transifex.com/tos#3

Main things we are missing with Transifex are: a reliable way to credit contributors, a safer glossary (with editing history and permissions), better organized communication tools.

I'm particularly interested in the translation discussion, because eventually we'll be looking to translate the MusicBrainz Picard User Guide https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org (and I know absolutely nothing about the process).

And I'm sorry to say that I only speak / read / write English, so I'm absolutely no use in this area.

my issues are also the glossary and bad communication tools

yvanzo: Those are the community guidelines, not the TM clause

However, it is tracking, profiling and buggy trashcan functionality across the board. What is insult and what is injury becomes meaningless in the greater sense of all of it being for the worse

yvanzo: Transifex does not retain translator copyright, and has lots of flaws overwriting all strings

rdswift: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/formats.html I know there is support for markdown too

What is the TM clause?

comradekingu: Is it about agreeing to contribute translations to a global translation memory? Like here: https://crowdin.com/page/open-source-project-se...

(I did not find anything about Transifex TM clause)

It is in the terms and conditions

Also the cookie policy is full of cancer

Transifex and Crowdin isnt the same thing, but they are very similar in that regard