Translations not synchronised

[Mejans]

Hello,
I saw there was a new version but no synchronisation with Transifex was made.
Is it normal?

Regards

[lukefromdc]

This is NOT normal, but some new translations that came in after the 1.28 release broke the builds, and I do not know how to fix this. I cannot really solo maintain MATE, and there has not been much work from anyone else lately.

[lukefromdc]

As of today, translations for at least Atril are no longer broken, so translation updates cam return to releases unless test builds encounter more breakage

[Mejans]

Hello @lukefromdc
thanks for the answer. Sorry to heard there is not so much help from the community.
I only contribute by translating but I am a dev, web dev. Maybe there are things you can ask for help? On a forum or similar, so people can see if it's doable for them, I include myself there.

[lukefromdc]

My online presence is restricted by not trusting any of the ad supported social media sites. There is also the recent xz mess to consider, where the maintainer got into similar trouble and let in what turned out to be a malicious party. I am autistic and cannot vet people effectively. I do not have what it takes to reassemble a team myself and do it safely.

[Mejans]

What a pity for translators and end users :(
What can of error is it?
Really often it is about syntax and placeholder, such as %d instead of %s.
Maybe it can be easily fixed without knowing the language.

[lukefromdc]

Most fixes for this would be made at transifex not here. I don't know enough about it to work on it myself without risking further breakage. Hopefully other team members will be back

[lukefromdc]

Still getting this build error if I update translations by pulling from transifix:

  GEN    zu/
Error: cannot open mo file ../tzm/tzm.mo

[BoFFire]

Hi @lukefromdc @Mejans
Is transifex pushing translations automatically or manually to the repo ?

tzm is berber language from Morocco. I just asked to join the tzm to try to help from there. But I'm waiting for validation.

[lukefromdc]

Someone on this end has to pull from transifex to update translations here. Unfortunately, I know little about this process beyond how to pull updates, and that broken translations need to be fixed at Transifex