Mailman 3 August 2023 - Bit-dev

Correct way of concatenating two strings that must be translated?
by BiT dev 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

Disclaimer: I am no gettext/translation specialist but want to create the best code for supporting our translators :-) What is the correct Python code snippet to create a new string by concatenating two (or more) strings while ensuring that the final result is translated correctly? Example (may not work): msg_prefix = "Hello" msg_body = "world" msg = _(msg_prefix + msg_body) or msg_prefix = _("Hello") msg_body = _("world") msg = msg_prefix + msg_body or ... ? And even more complicated if I want to insert a formatted variable too...: msg_prefix = _("Welcome {name}".format(name=login_name)) msg_body = _("at {location}".format(name=address)) msg = msg_prefix + msg_body or ... ? I think we should collect some code snippets for these common cases (e.g. in our discussed new repo "dev-tools")

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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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[German] Missing Wikipedia article
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

Hello folks, this goes to the German nativ speakers. Back In Time does not have an entry in the German Wikipedia. So if one of you will give it a try? Just use the English article as a reference. When the article is created then we are allowed to add BIT to the German list of backup softwares (another wikipedia article). Thanks in advance. Christian

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rsync 3.2.6 : Output of -VV
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 13 Aug '23

13 Aug '23

Hello, does someone of you have rsync 3.2.6 at hand without installing an extra VM? Can please show me the exact output of "$ rsync -VV" then? Thanks Christian

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Unittests failing
by jnk.gregorczyk＠gmail.com 13 Aug '23

13 Aug '23

When following: cd common ./configure && make make test I'm getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_dbus_bindings' in all 15 tests. I have both python3-dbus and python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5 dependecies satisfied.

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I want to contribute to BIT project
by jnk.gregorczyk＠gmail.com 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Hello, I'm Jan from Poland and I want to join your project. I don't have commercial experience as a developer. I love the idea of open source and can't wait to write code which is free and actually used by someone. I'm new to opensource, so please be nice to me. Greetings, Jan

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