From: Philip Oakley Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:59:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] po/README: Update directions for l10n contributors Message-ID: <766F16CA94884DEBAEFC7A594DE64529@PhilipOakley> In-Reply-To: <30198223977cc51444ce3c3a61833fa9d7619dc7.1439704077.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com> From: "Jiang Xin" > From: Philip Oakley > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin > --- > 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. > + > +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 --