L10N Move to Weblate

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Future migration plan
This page is a work-in-progress content about our L10N/Translation Platform

• Point of contact: Jean-Baptiste Holcroft (aka jibecfed)
  • Also, IRC #fedora-i18n on freenode
• Tickets:
  • Ticket we use in our Meetings https://pagure.io/g11n/issue/58
  • Ticket about public event at Flock to validate this migration plan: https://pagure.io/flock/issue/144
• Some articles:
  • Fedora localization platform migrates to Weblate, October 10th, 2019 / Jean-Baptiste Holcroft: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-localization-platform-migrates-to-weblate/
  • Fedora Localization project status and horizons, July 29th, 2019 / Jean-Baptiste Holcroft: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-localization-project-status-and-horizons/
  • Fedora docs translations FAD report (using Weblate), April 23rd, 2019 / Adam Šamalík https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-docs-translations-fad-report/

Objectives

The Fedora Localization community is using and end-of-life translation platform, and need to find a new tool to support our team activity.

Last migrations gave mitigated results, and we need this migration to be the last one for a significant period, at least for a decade. It means we need to be able to reach stability continuity.

With the aim above in mind, then we should discuss what we need to do.

The requirements are grouped inside these categories:

1. host fedora and upstream translation projects (dnf, websites...)
2. team collaboration processes (fr, pr_br, ro...)
3. translation processes

Migration plan

Schedule hypothesis

The migration plan will be related to the future Fedora 32 schedule. Here is the schedule drafted from previous

2019-08-20	Branch Fedora 31 from Rawhide (Rawhide becomes future F32) 
2019-10-29	Fedora 31 Release 
2020-01-07	Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (System Wide Changes) 
		Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (Changes requiring mass rebuild) 
2020-01-28	Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (Self Contained Changes) 
2020-01-29	Mass Rebuild 
2020-02-04	Software String Freeze 
2020-02-18	Change Checkpoint: Completion deadline (testable) 
		Branch Fedora 32 from Rawhide (Rawhide becomes future F33) 
2020-03-03	Bodhi activation point 
		Beta Freeze (*) 
		Software Translation Deadline
		Change Checkpoint: 100% Code Complete Deadline 
2020-03-24	Beta Release (Preferred Target) 
2020-03-31	Beta Release (Target #1) 
2020-04-14	Final Freeze (*) 
2020-04-28	Final Release (GA) (Preferred Target) 
2020-05-05	Final Release (GA) (Target #1)

Key milestones

Be ready for Software Translation Deadline

The second key milestone is the string freeze, ideally, all upstream project will have to use the translation platform by then. Translators need time to translate, going too much beyond the Software String Freeze deadline would prevent correct translation level, and thus, impacting user experience for non english speakers.

2020-01-28	Software String Freeze 
2020-03-03	Software Translation Deadline

Be ready for System Wide Changes proposal deadline

Changing our translation platform is an important change for translators, but the impact on packages is minor. Release can technically be done whatever successfull the migration is. Failing the migration would mean waste of contributor ressources and demotivation.

It requires coordination with:

• all upstream maintainer using Zanata will have to migrate,
• website team will have to migrate,
• documentation team will have to finish i18n support.

As this largely impact our community, visibility is important for teams to coordinate, and the change to be noticed outside of our community.

2020-01-07	Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (System Wide Changes) 

We'll have to be ready by then. Which mean ask the community to confirm the move, and projects to confirm they understood the new way to interact with the translators and the new translator platform.

Agree on the System Wide Changes proposal

A test phase with pilot projects and translators would be useful, as the philosophy of the translation platform will be really different of what we currently have.

This test phase already happened with some positive feedback about the documentation translation system internationalization.

A GO/NO GO should probably be handled in december.

Key activities

• Communicate the reasons of the migration.
• Develop the mandatory Fedora specific features
• Explain to project maintainers the impact on source management (Zanata uses command line interface to push/pull while Weblate interact with a git repository).
• Roll-out of the Fedora websites. Adapt continuous deployment to confirm behaviour on staging. Then deploy on production.
• Roll-out of the Fedora documentation. Deploy in production the current staging continuous deployment scripts which are running in staging. Note: it currently uses a demonstration Weblate instance [1].
• Roll-out of the Fedora packages. Confirm the git repository to use and connect Weblate to each projects. This doesn't require much upstream contribution (only the branch or branches to use are to be known).

List of projects and status

Why a migration status? Some Zanata projects are tests, other projects can freely decide to decide to change the way they structure their translation or move to any translation platform of their choice.

Identification	Identification status	Number
… projects that do not require migration	No	18
… projects to be confirmed	Requires migration ?	65
… projects to migrate	Yes	31
Total projects in Zanata		114

Progress	Migration status	Number
… Not concerned by the migration	N/A	16
… Project migration did not start yet	Not started	90
… Migration in progress	In progress	2
… Migration is done	Done	6
Total projects to migrate		98

project	MESSAGE	WORD	Identification status	Progress status	Upstream ticket	Comment
abrt	3980	32000	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/abrt/abrt/issues/1427
anaconda	767701	5072422	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785028
appstream-glib	9999	46157	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/issues/339
asciidoc-test	0	0	No	N/A
asknot-ng	54944	246238	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/fedora-infra/asknot-ng/issues/109
authselect	117362	1088275	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/pbrezina/authselect/issues/186
balistica	5151	11514	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/steveno/balistica/issues/46
blivet	124533	787396	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet/issues/821
blivet-gui	22523	79285	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet-gui/issues
camorama	16500	78400	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/alessio/camorama/issues/31
certmonger	41915	253510	Yes	Not started	https://pagure.io/certmonger/issue/141
chkconfig	20806	112514	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/fedora-sysv/chkconfig/issues/26
classified-ads	87163	404707	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/operatornormal/classified-ads/issues/8
cockpit	846784	3079086	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/13319
cockpit-composer	20402	84739	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/weldr/cockpit-composer/issues/856
cockpit-podman	?	?	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman/issues/267
comps	64034	331078	Yes	Not started	https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/issue/442
cracklib	1616	9797	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/cracklib/cracklib/issues/28
dnf	143319	719827	Yes	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787204
dnf-plugins-core	33027	209171	Yes	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787206
dnf-plugins-extras	5050	32623	Yes	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787207
docker-anaconda-addon	404	2727	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785029
eicar-test	0	0	No	N/A
entangle	23129	101505	Yes	Not started	https://gitlab.com/entangle/entangle/issues/42
expendable	9393	23028	No	Not started		No update in years
fedora-budget	31714	351177	No	n/a
fedora-cheat-cubes	20806	55146	Yes	Done	https://pagure.io/fedora-cheat-cubes/issue/20
fedora-docs-install-guide	258459	5807904	No	n/a
fedora-docs-system-adminstration-guide	679831	14731153	no	n/a
fedora-modularity-translations	30300	552975	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/fedora-modularity/ModulemdTranslationHelpers/issues/5
fedora-podcast	38784	1960208	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://pagure.io/g11n/issue/56
fedora-software	3234	13132	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/misli/fedora-software/issues/19	No update in years
fedora-web	143100	1388100	Yes	Not started	https://pagure.io/fedora-web/websites/issue/79
firewalld	86960	467164	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/firewalld/firewalld/issues/562
firstboot	2121	11918	No	Not started		Deprecated for initial-setup
freeipa	1785276	22334736	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8159
gfs2-utils	107666	832543	Yes	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787299
gnome-abrt	6370	26700	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/abrt/gnome-abrt/issues/244
gss-ntlmssp	3030	12625	Yes	Not started	https://pagure.io/gssntlmssp/issue/15
hivex	2222	27573	Requires migration ?	Not started
ibus	54944	219069	Yes	In progress	https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2165
ibus-anthy	19594	71508	Yes	Done	https://github.com/ibus/ibus-anthy/issues/15
ibus-chewing	7070	36966	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/definite/ibus-chewing/issues/150
ibus-input-pad	3232	10403	Yes	Done	https://github.com/fujiwarat/ibus-input-pad/issues/2
ibus-libpinyin	13736	37572	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/libpinyin/ibus-libpinyin/issues/210
ibus-m17n	2424	5959	yes	Done	https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n/issues/10
ibus-table	22220	165640	Yes	Done	https://github.com/mike-fabian/ibus-table/issues/10
ibus-typing-booster	19493	179376	Yes	Done	https://github.com/mike-fabian/ibus-typing-booster/issues/56	beta test
im-chooser	5656	24341	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://pagure.io/im-chooser/issue/1
imsettings	8484	46157	Requires migration ?	Not started
initial-setup	5959	30098	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/rhinstaller/initial-setup/issues/92
initscripts	15049	101202	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/fedora-sysv/initscripts/issues/298
input-pad	104737	230179	Requires migration ?	Not started
iok	1560	8229	Requires migration ?	Not started
libbytesize	1717	1717	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/storaged-project/libbytesize/issues/63
libdnf	30098	186345	Yes	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1787208
libguestfs	1900012	21861349	Requires migration ?	Not started
libosinfo	15857	74942	Requires migration ?	Not started
libpwquality	5353	34744	Requires migration ?	Not started
libreport	64466	533742	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://github.com/abrt/libreport/issues/589
libuser	30401	149278	Requires migration ?	Not started
libvirt	996769	6547527	Requires migration ?	Not started
libvirt-glib	3030	15453	Yes	In progress	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1783579
libvirt-sandbox	13635	74235	Requires migration ?	Not started
linux-pam	12120	62115	Requires migration ?	Not started
man-pages-l10n	22034867	306416022	No	N/A		Each language has a different translation project. Reach Debian team if you want to translate this.
mediawriter	12423	81305	Requires migration ?	Not started
mlocate	5151	58883	Requires migration ?	Not started
my-online-editor	75240	362045	Requires migration ?	Not started
newt	404	404	Requires migration ?	Not started
oscap-anaconda-addon	10200	78600	Requires migration ?	Not started	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785030
osinfo-db	57267	179780	Requires migration ?	Not started
osinfo-db-tools	4343	22422	Requires migration ?	Not started
pam_krb5	404	1010	Requires migration ?	Not started
passwd	5656	33936	Requires migration ?	Not started
plymouth	404	1212	Requires migration ?	Not started
pulseaudio	105242	705990	Requires migration ?	Not started
pykickstart	70700	663469	Requires migration ?	Not started
python-fedora	5858	42824	Requires migration ?	Not started
python-meh	4846	23484	Requires migration ?	Not started
python-simpleline	1616	4444	Requires migration ?	Not started
retrace-server	5656	43733	Requires migration ?	Not started
rhel-comps	7400	36220	Requires migration ?	Not started
selinux	465909	3281420	Requires migration ?	Not started
serbian-docs	118	1814	No	N/A
setroubleshoot	120136	2144985	Requires migration ?	Not started
ships-123	0	0	No	N/A
site_home	0	0	No	N/A
spacewalk-frontend	1287346	8463093	Requires migration ?	Not started
spacewalk-other	177356	1662965	Requires migration ?	Not started
sssd	311888	3828708	Requires migration ?	Not started
system-config-kdump	1570	8980	Requires migration ?	Not started
system-config-kickstart	25654	116150	Requires migration ?	Not started
system-config-language	7017	47829	Requires migration ?	Not started
system-config-printer	210490	865853	Requires migration ?	Not started
systemd	12625	107565	Requires migration ?	Not started
tantivy	0	0	No	N/A
test	2	2	No	N/A
test1	64034	331078	No	N/A
test123213	0	0	No	N/A
Testing	188	541	No	N/A
testproj	2929	16059	No	N/A
testttt	308	2834	No	N/A
tvtime	75548	390870	Requires migration ?	Not started
udisks	50372	215894	Yes	Not started	https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/719
usermode	9696	58075	Requires migration ?	Not started
v4l-utils	35672	182868	Requires migration ?	Not started
virt-manager	146706	737254	Requires migration ?	Not started
virt-top	8484	43127	Requires migration ?	Not started
virt-viewer	19291	89991	Requires migration ?	Not started
volume_key	15251	75952	Requires migration ?	Not started
webdevelop	1212	5151	Requires migration ?	Not started
webhh	4	50	Requires migration ?	Not started
webhooks-dummy	101	101	Requires migration ?	Not started
websites	11312	148571	Yes	Not started	https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/issue/1013

List of inactive projects in Zanata that won't be migrated: accessibility-guide , amateur-radio-guide , anaconda-addon-development-guide , audit-viewer , authconfig , romana , cloud-guide , csi-security-policy , defensive-coding-guide , dnf-plugin-system-upgrade , docbook-locales , docs-install-guide , docs-sandbox , docsite-publican , driverrestore , fas , fedora-elections-guide , fedora-installation-guide , multiboot-guide , openssh-guide , packagers-guide , power-management-guide , fedora-release-notes , securityguide , software-collections-guide , software-management-guide , storage-administration-guide , fedora-uefi-secure-boot-guide , fedora-virt-deploy-and-admin , fedora-cookbook , freeipa-guide , Hi2019 , python-humanize , install-guide-reboot , ipsilon , isitfedoraruby , readme-live-image , liveusb-creator , musicians-guide , myproject , networking-guide , pkinit-nss , publican-fedora , redhat-menus , regcfp , selinux-guide , spacewalk , spice-gtk , system-administrators-guide , system-config-audit , system-config-firewall , technical-notes , test_plugin , translation-quick-start-guide , virtualization-getting-started-guide , vte-profile