Category: Community

Weblate is a free and open source software (FOSS) translation tool, with version control features. It’s used by many projects around the world, including LibreOffice, Fedora and openSUSE, to assist their communities with translating user interfaces, documentation, and other aspects of software.

Because we in the LibreOffice project use Weblate, we wanted to contribute back and help to fund fixes and improvements. This is all possible thanks to generous donations from you!

The full list of changes is at the bottom of this blogpost, but as a summary: TDF funded improvements to the administration interface, making it easier to work with permissions, and filter by language when generating reports. A night theme was added (shown below), along with other cosmetic improvements, and it’s now possible for translators to explain why they reject a suggestion.

All of these are available in Weblate 4.18 (the latest release) and future versions. And more are coming in Weblate 5.0, such as nested projects or project grouping and per-language translation workflow settings.

Thanks again to our donors for making this possible, and Sophie Gautier and Jan ‘Kendy’ Holešovský for ther help! And we can say to other FOSS projects looking for translating tools, we recommend Weblate 👍

Full list of improvements and fixes

• #7205 – unchanged translation flag notwithstanding glossary term marked as untranslatable, fixed in 4.17
• #5854 – Autofix Bangla/Bengali sentence ender to ।, fixed in 4.17
• #5842 – Shortcut for suggest, fixed in 4.15
• #4368 – Improved presentation of differences in machine translations, fixed in 4.18
• #4160 – Allow to filter on language in reports, fixed in 4.17
• #3242 – Ability to download all translation memory from a given project in a per-language basis, fixed in 4.17
• #2241 – Search who translates the same language, fixed in 4.18
• #2127 – Create Group Administration Permissions, fixed in 4.15
• #1994 – Check if two different strings share same translation, fixed in 4.18
• #1661 – Suggestion rejection reason: possibility of explaining why you reject a suggestion, fixed in 4.18
• #2969 – Add night theme, fixed in 4.18
• #5519 – Glossary import and export with explanations, fixed in 4.18

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

• We started July by welcoming Michael Weghorn to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice. Michael is a developer and will initially focus on accessibility improvements.

• Talking of the TDF team: in June, team members met in Munich to discuss ideas and proposals for the community and software. They worked on lots of topics – and now we’ve uploaded the report of the meeting. Check it out and let us know what you think!

• More news from the foundation: the Membership Committee (MC), which is responsible for managing membership applications and renewals, announced a new membership management system called Proteus.

• Meanwhile, our documentation and localisation communities did some great work: they updated the Getting Started Guide to LibreOffice 7.5, and finished a Czech translation of the LibreOffice Draw Guide 7.4. Awesome!

• We had one release in July, LibreOffice 7.5.5. This is the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 7.5 branch, and all users are recommended to get the update.

• And finally: our Extensions and Templates website received a bunch of improvements, thanks to TDF’s new Web Developer, Juan José González (aka “JJ”).

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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

• We started June by announcing the LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023, in Indonesia, an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, communities, and businesses in the Asia region. It will take place from 6 – 8 October 2023 – find out more here!

• Meanwhile, LibreOffice project volunteers received a cool tribute from the Mexican “Instituto Integración Down”. Nice 👍

• Next up: we announced the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023. Sticker packs and extra merchandise are on their way…

• On June 8, TDF announced LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community, the fourth minor update to the 7.5 family.

• How can we make LibreOffice and the Thunderbird email client work better together? That’s a question we asked, and we posted some ideas from our communities. Let’s make them happen!

• At the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2023, there’ll be a workshop about getting started with development of the suite. The organisers prepared a nice poster with info (click to expand):

• Finally, we posted some more sections from TDF’s Annual Report 2022: marketing activities and community infrastructure.

Keep in touch – follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Mastodon. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join us and help to make LibreOffice even better!