Replace Transifex documentation and configuration with Weblate.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <[email protected]>

Author: andersk

.gitignore

@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 # npm cache directory
 .npm
 
-# transifexrc - if user prefers it to be in working tree
-.transifexrc
-
 # Compiled binary build directory
 /dist/
 /dist-electron/

.tx/config

@@ -8,55 +8,13 @@ appropriate translation for a given string ("message") used in the UI.
 
 To manage the set of UI messages and translations for them, and
 provide a nice workflow for people to contribute translations, we use
-(along with the rest of the Zulip project) a service called Transifex.
-
-## Maintainers: syncing to/from Transifex
-
-### Setup
-
-You'll want Transifex's CLI client, `tx`.
-
-- Install in your homedir with `easy_install transifex-client` or `pip3 install --user transifex-client`.
-  Or you can use your Zulip dev server virtualenv, which has it.
-
-- Configure a `.transifexrc` with your API token. See [upstream
-  instructions](https://docs.transifex.com/client/client-configuration#transifexrc).
-
-  This can go either in your homedir, or in your working tree to make
-  the configuration apply only locally; it's already ignored in our
-  `.gitignore`.
-
-- You'll need to be added [as a "maintainer"][tx-zulip-maintainers] to
-  the Zulip project on Transifex. (Upstream [recommends
-  this][tx-docs-maintainers] as the set of permissions on a Transifex
-  project needed for interacting with it as a developer.)
-
-[tx-zulip-maintainers]: https://www.transifex.com/zulip/zulip/settings/maintainers/
-[tx-docs-maintainers]: https://docs.transifex.com/teams/understanding-user-roles#project-maintainers
-
-### Uploading strings to translate
-
-Run `tx push -s`.
-
-This uploads from `public/translations/en.json` to the
-set of strings Transifex shows for contributors to translate.
-(See `.tx/config` for how that's configured.)
-
-### Downloading translated strings
-
-Run `tools/tx-pull`.
-
-This writes to files `public/translations/<lang>.json`.
-(See `.tx/config` for how that's configured.)
-
-Then look at the following sections to see if further updates are
-needed to take full advantage of the new or updated translations.
+(along with the rest of the Zulip project) a service called Weblate.
 
 ### Updating the languages supported in the code
 
 Sometimes when downloading translated strings we get a file for a new
 language. This happens when we've opened up a new language for people
-to contribute translations into in the Zulip project on Transifex,
+to contribute translations into in the Zulip project on Weblate,
 which we do when someone expresses interest in contributing them.
 
 The locales for supported languages are stored in `public/translations/supported-locales.json`

docs/howto/translations.md

@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ These are _generated_ files (\*) that contain translations of the strings in
 the app.
 
 You can help translate Zulip Desktop into your language! We do our
-translations in Transifex, which is a nice web app for collaborating on
+translations in Weblate, which is a nice web app for collaborating on
 translations; a maintainer then syncs those translations into this repo.
 To help out, [join the Zulip project on
-Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/zulip/zulip/) and enter translations
+Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/zulip/) and enter translations
 there. More details in the [Zulip contributor docs](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/translating/translating.html#translators-workflow).
 
-Within that Transifex project, if you'd like to focus on Zulip Desktop, look
-at `desktop.json`. The other resources there are for the Zulip web/mobile
+Within that Weblate project, if you'd like to focus on Zulip Desktop, look
+at the **Desktop** component. The other components are for the Zulip web/mobile
 app, where translations are also very welcome.
 
-(\*) One file is an exception: `en.json` is manually maintained as a
-list of (English) messages in the source code, and is used when we upload to
-Transifex a list of strings to be translated. It doesn't contain any
+(\*) One file is an exception: `en.json` is maintained by `i18next-parser` as a
+list of (English) messages in the source code, and is used by Weblate as
+a list of strings to be translated. It doesn't contain any
 translations.