Mailman 3 June 2023 - Bit-dev

Remove English variants from translations
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

Hello, I hope some native speakers are around. BIT does offer translation for "Canada" and "United Kingdom" English. I'm not a pro here but would assume with our GUI in mind that there is no difference between "English" (US) and that two variants. When I look into the translation files (temporary link: [1]) there really is no difference. But their translation is not 100% complete; UK is at 64% and Canada at 25%. I would like to remove them because there is no need for a translation from "English" into one of that two variants. What do you think? Kind Christian [1] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/backintime/common/>

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Version 0.9 at YouTube
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Hello folks, acidentially I found a quite old YouTube video. Looks like a VHS-ripped TV show (named "Category5.tv") or something like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrsBgfz9xDk They do show version 0.9 of Back In Time. Kind Christian

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Translation platform
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

Hello together, I would like to announce our new platform to support the translation of the Back In Time interface by non technical users. Even that our code repository is hosted at Microsoft GitHub we now do use the Weblate instance of the alternative code hoster Codeberg.org. https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/backintime/common/ Translations can be "suggested" without having an account. If you like to have an account you need to create it at Coderberg.org. The account creation at translate.coderberg.org is a bit awkward today but will be improved. Beside translating yourself please feel free to ask in your peer group if you know native speakers of other languages. You can also add new languages if you want; e.g. yesterday someone added Vietnamese. If you have expertise in foreign languages or linguistic please feel free to join the discussion. I tried to contact the former known translators known by their mail in the po-files or by their contact information at Launchpad (the platform used in the past for translations). I also made some advertise at Reddit and other forums. Currently we have an open PR (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/pull/1455) discussion removing some languages (e.g. Javanese) or language variants (Canadian and British English). Kind Christian Buhtz

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How does anacron work with BIT
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Hello, can anyone understand and tell how anacron work with BIT (on Debian 11)? I can not find something in /etc/cron.* . There is a something in ~/.localshare/backintime/anacron/... But this looks like timestamp files and not anacron jobs. Kind Christian

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Issue statistic July 2023
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hello, it is some month ago I generated the last issue statistic. Sorry about that. The new one can be found here: <https://codeberg.org/buhtz/spielwiese/src/branch/main/bit.md> There is a new view comes from an idea by Jürgen. Now we can see the mean lifetime of an Issue per Month or Year. The values are sometimes very "dramatic" because some Issues where open for a lot of years. I don't have automated statistics about pull requests currently. But looking into Microsoft GitHub I count 21 new pull requests created in the year 2023. Of that 19 new PRs, 3 are still open and 16 are closed (2 of them not merged). Thanks a lot for helping, contributing and reviewing.

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