Pull translations before each release

[davidmehren]

Describe the bug

At least the string with id s670ad066cc0e50a3 for the German translation was updated in Transifex in March 2024, but that change was not imported into this repo.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Look at the string in web/xliff/de.xlf: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/blame/main/web/xliff/de.xlf#L4908
2. Observe no space after the <x id="0" equiv-text="${this.challenge.applicationPre}"/> placeholder and the blame showing the last change at two years ago.

3. Check the same string in Transifex and observe the missing space has been added a year ago: https://app.transifex.com/authentik/authentik/translate/#de/c2121861c815af81d0bc88d61b4a85fe/460443676?q=text%3A'login+to'

5. Wonder if Transifex changes get imported correctly

Expected behavior

All translation changes get imported to the repo and eventually released.

[rissson]

Changes are only pulled in once the translation is 100% done

[davidmehren]

So you are continuing to ship a translation, but not any updates to it, as soon as it is not 100% translated anymore?

That does seem quite weird to me.

[davidmehren]

I think it is very sensible to only start shipping a translation when it is 100% done.

But in this case you are shipping an evidently broken German translation (see e.g. #10892), point people to fix it in Transifex, but don't ship the fixes.

Isn't it possible to always pull updates for a language after you shipped it initially?

[rissson]

I'm not entirely certain, but this might be a transifex limitation, at least when using the built-in integration with github. If we need to build a custom thing to pull in translations, we simply don't have the bandwidth to do so right now.

[rissson]

Yeah indeed, we're currently setting this to 100% translated. We could put it at an arbitrary number like 75%, but then each update would trigger a new PR on this repository, which is untenable

[davidmehren]

At HedgeDoc, we at some point ditched the POEditor integration and started to pull translation changes manually before each release. Maybe this is something you could consider?

[rissson]

Definitely, especially if there's some prior art for how to do it. For now I'll mark this as planned, but don't expect us to tackle this soon. Community contributions are welcomed though

[strifel]

Zulip does also pull translations manually from transifex: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/tools/i18n/sync-translations