Hi,

This is a bit late since we moved a month ago, but I still get private
emails from users asking why the Xfce translation website moved to
transifex.com. Apparently not a lot read the Xfce-i18n mailing list...
So since you were registered at translations.xfce.org, I'm sending you
this email.

For quite some time Xfce used a private installation of Transifex
because this "old" version was capable of pushing to git directly and
the tools provided by transifex.com were not extremely suitable at the
time. But time went by and transifex.com improved to a nice platform,
while our installation started to struggle more and more.

So it was about time we moved and since the beginning of this month all
translations moved to the Xfce hub project! There are separate projects
for the core modules because there we work more active with different
branches, and there are "collection" projects for the various goodies,
like panel plugins, thunar extensions and applications outside Xfce core.

The platform is (imho) a huge improvement for translators; the interface
is very nice, a way better online editor and a translation memory across
the components to translate similar string more quickly and consistently.
On the developers side everything is still automated; a cron script will
pull the translations and submit them to git (if they reached a minimum
percentage of 50% and passed all checks).

During the migration a lot of files were removed from git because they
did not pass "msgfmt -check", so at the same time this was a nice cleanup
of broken translations in the repositories.

All dropped po file are packed per-language and can be found here:
http://users.xfce.org/~nick/broken-i18n/
You can manually fix the errors and upload them again, so they will be
committed upstream. If they still contain errors either the upload will
fail or the cron job will continue to spam you with the error messages
until you fixed them.

So in case you were translating Xfce and continue willing doing so, sign
up at transifex.com and joint a translation team in the Xfce project:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/xfce/

I try to restore the teams as much as possible, so it would be nice if
you signup with you old user name, especially for coordinators since
they can get some weight off my shoulders accepting new translators
in their language.

Cheers,
Nick Schermer <nick@xfce.org>