Re: [Taler] We wish to add Ukrainian translations

[Ilya Kowalewski]

Dear Stefan,

Thank you for prompt response! We had completed translation for taler-bank, and
will carry on translation as much as possible in the coming days to better
position GNU Taler in the eyes of NBU and other interested parties.

-Ilya

> On 27. Feb 2024, at 17:57, Stefan <eintritt@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ilya,
> 
> We warmly embrace your efforts and welcome you to contribute to GNU Taler and 
> its implementations.
> 
> I see that you already managed to sign in into Weblate. Starting with 
> https://weblate.taler.net/projects/gnu-taler/, you can see an overview on all 
> components in Weblate to translate. I just added Ukrainian for the component 
> Main web site (which is targeting www.taler.net with all its strings), see 
> https://weblate.taler.net/projects/gnu-taler/main-web-site/uk/.
> 
> Same applies for the demo pages starting with 
> https://weblate.taler.net/projects/gnu-taler/demonstration-pages/uk/ and the 
> bank at https://weblate.taler.net/projects/gnu-taler/taler-bank/uk/. Feel 
> free to begin with any component and to ask me for assistance whenever you 
> need help.
> 
> Concerning the packaging of the Taler software, please take a look at 
> https://docs.taler.net/taler-developer-manual.html to find out more details 
> on packages containing Debian and Ubuntu repositories.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Stefan
>> Hello,
>> 
>> There’s currently a huge effort underway in NBU to evalute all possible 
>> options
>> for a CBDC or functional analogue thereof for nation-wide e-currency 
>> deployment.
>> We have been advocating for Taler to be piloted as soon as 2021 when the SNB
>> whitepaper first came out, however at the time our national regulator wasn't
>> interested in supporting any of our efforts.
>> 
>> With the advent of NGI Taler, we have managed to re-ignite the conversation.
>> 
>> We wish to provide Ukrainian translations for the website, as well as the 
>> bank,
>> and the demo pages to begin with. So we signed up on Weblate instance for GNU
>> Taler, only to find out that Ukrainian isn't listed in the language list, so 
>> we
>> had also reached out through the built-in form, to no avail.
>> 
>> Somebody in my team has already done some translations in msgid form, should 
>> we
>> perhaps submit those through normal patch submission process, or could 
>> anybody
>> help us out with Weblate setup?
>> 
>> Also: perhaps a bit of an off-topic, but is there any example setups powered 
>> by
>> something like docker-compose that would be a least-effort path to 
>> self-hosting
>> all major components? We have been trying to build the exchange and merchant
>> back-ends, but the build system is pretty convoluted so having some kind of
>> pre-packaged deployment would make life so much easier!
>> 
>> -Ilya
>> 
>>> I've heard the noise of a virtual machine
>>> Now I'm stuck in the reality of backlash
>>> And cashed-in chips.
>