On-and-off over the past few months I wrote a new tool called Protokolo. I wrote earlier about how I implemented internationalisation for this project. This blog post is a simple and short introduction to the tool. Protokolo—Esperanto for ‘report’ or ‘minutes’—is a change log generator. It solves a very simple (albeit annoying) problem space at the intersection of change logs and version control systems: Different merge requests all edit the same area in CHANGELOG, inevitably resulting in merge conflicts.

TL;DR—look at Protokolo and do exactly what it does. This is a short article because I am lazy but do want to be helpful. The sections are the steps you should take. All code presented in this article is licensed CC0-1.0. Use gettext As a first step, you should use gettext. This effectively means wrapping all string literals in _() calls. This article won’t waste a lot of time on how to do this or how gettext works.

I have been working on En Pyssant for a while, a Free Software chess engine written in Python. The engine part of the program is not (yet) complete, but the rules of chess are wholly implemented. My primary goal in writing this engine is to use everything and the kitchen sink to learn new things: Maybe the program does not need a full testing and benchmarking suite, but I have implemented it anyway.