Adding additional languages?

[meesfrensel]

Hi,

We're considering integrating media-chrome into Immich and are pretty happy with it so far. One open issue is i18n: media-chrome only has support for 6 languages, we have (good) support for about 50 through Weblate (see the Immich page for reference).

We considered overriding your translations with addTranslation('en', <current user's language's translations>), but 1) that's kind of a hack, 2) requires us to keep maintaining the translations we set if updates of media-chrome change anything there, and 3) while we can crowdsource the translations through Weblate, and use them in Immich, we can't contribute them back to media-chrome.

Are you open to adding many more languages to media-chrome (~45 new ones), in any way? Realistically, we think there are two main options:

1. We supply you the translations to add to media-chrome. We'd probably stub them out using AI and then let our translations contributors improve on them before submitting them here. Obviously this shifts the maintenance burden onto you, whenever translations need to be changed or added. But: it's better than only supporting so few languages, even if future strings are left untranslated for the new ones.
2. You set up Weblate for media-chrome as well - we could help with that, and it's free for open source projects. Then, we'll point our translations contributors to media-chrome's Weblate page for translating everything. You won't have to manage translations, Weblate can automatically open a PR with the latest translations (example) to merge just before you release, etc. It's really quite a nice workflow.

It would be great to hear from you. Thanks in advance!

[ronald-urbina]

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