Merging translations from Crowdin
Crowdin automatically syncs the gitlab.pot
file presenting newly
added translations to the community of translators.
At the same time, it creates a merge request to merge all newly added
& approved translations. Find the merge request created by
gitlab-crowdin-bot
to see new and merged merge requests. They are created in EE and need
to be ported to CE manually.
Validation
By default Crowdin commits translations with [skip ci]
in the commit
message. This is done to avoid a bunch of pipelines being run. Before
merging translations, make sure to trigger a pipeline to validate
translations, we have static analysis validating things Crowdin
doesn't do. Create a new pipeline for the
master-i18n
branch.
If there are validation errors, the easiest solution is to disapprove the offending string in Crowdin, leaving a comment with what is required to fix the offense. There is an issue suggesting to automate this process. Disapproving will exclude the invalid translation, the merge request will be updated within a few minutes.
It might be handy to pause the integration on the Crowdin side for a
little while so translations don't keep coming. This can be done by
clicking Pause sync
on the Crowdin integration settings
page.
When all failures are resolved, the translations need to be double
checked once more as discussed in confidential issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/37850
.
Merging translations
When all translations are found good and pipelines pass the
translations can be merged into the master branch. After that is done,
create a new merge request cherry-picking the translations from EE to
CE. When merging the translations, make sure to check the Remove source branch
checkbox, so Crowdin recreates the master-i18n
from
master after the new translation was merged.
We are discussing automating this entire process here.
Recreate the merge request
Crowdin creates a new merge request as soon as the old one is closed
or merged. But it won't recreate the master-i18n
branch every
time. To force Crowdin to recreate the branch, close any open merge
request
and delete the
master-18n
.
This might be needed when the merge request contains failures that have been fixed on master.