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Re: [PATCH v3] po/README: Update directions for l10n contributors

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Aug 16, 2015, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID
<766F16CA94884DEBAEFC7A594DE64529@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To
<30198223977cc51444ce3c3a61833fa9d7619dc7.1439704077.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com>
From: "Jiang Xin" <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
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> From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
>
> Some Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu) have their own l10n 
> workflows,
> and their translations may be different.  Add notes for this case for
> l10n translators.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
> ---
> po/README | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
> index d8c9111..fef4c0f 100644
> --- a/po/README
> +++ b/po/README
> @@ -10,10 +10,26 @@ coordinates our localization effort in the l10 
> coordinator repository:
>
>         https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
>
> +The two character language translation codes are defined by 
> ISO_639-1, as
> +stated in the gettext(1) full manual, appendix A.1, Usual Language 
> Codes.
> +
> +
> +Contributing to an existing translation
> +---------------------------------------
> As a contributor for a language XX, you should first check TEAMS file 
> in
> this directory to see whether a dedicated repository for your language 
> XX
> exists. Fork the dedicated repository and start to work if it exists.
>
> +Sometime, contributors may find that the translations of their Git
> +distributions are quite different with the translations of the
> +corresponding version from Git official. This is because some Git
> +distributions (such as from Ubuntu, etc.) have their own l10n 
> workflow.
> +For this case, wrong translations should be reported and fixed 
> through
> +their workflows.
> +
OK. That's a reasonable summary of what the reader should do.
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> +
> +Creating a new language translation
> +-----------------------------------
> If you are the first contributor for the language XX, please fork this
> repository, prepare and/or update the translated message file po/XX.po
> (described later), and ask the l10n coordinator to pull your work.
> @@ -23,6 +39,9 @@ coordinate among yourselves and nominate the team 
> leader for your
> language, so that the l10n coordinator only needs to interact with one
> person per language.
>
> +
> +Translation Process Flow
> +------------------------
> The overall data-flow looks like this:
>
>     +-------------------+            +------------------+
> -- 
Confirmed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
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