Idea: A GitHub Actions to pull translations from Transifex

[rffontenelle]

Each team has its own solution to pull translations from Transifex. Setting up a solution can be an issue to new teams that prefer to translate rather than keep reinventing the wheel.

How about a GitHub Actions perform all necessary actions to pull translations?

Workflow idea:

   permissions:
     contents: write 
   steps:
    - name: Checkout the repository
       uses: actions/checkout@3
    - name: Pull translations
      uses: THIS_ACTION@main
      with:
        tx_token: ${{ secrets.TX_TOKEN }}
        cpython_branch: 3.12
        commit_and_push: true

• python-docs-uk has an awesome script that uses transifex-python package to pull translations from Transifex. It is simple and clean.
• README would instruct on setting up the Transifex API token as repository secret
• commit_and_push argument in the above example is to avoid the need for posterior commit and push, but leaving false would allow customized commit and push tasks.
• Note how cpython and dependencies wouldn't have to be set up in the language's workflow.
• A Docker-based or JavaScript-based github action? I've read JavaScript-based is faster, but I don't know if all these operations can be done other than in Docker-based.
• This repository could document suggestion to new teams using this new action

[m-aciek]

There is https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-transifex-actions. Although it doesn't work with the new Transifex CLI AFAIC. Still we can try to fix it there, or it can be used as an inspiration.

[m-aciek]

I think a PyPI package to be used in workflows of the language repos would be as helpful as the native GitHub Action. Potentially the package could be a step in the direction of having a GitHub Action available.