From a6926b837e22f69d9b800eb5f6d6c6d37285d8b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 15:56:56 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] po/README: Update directions for l10n contributors
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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
po/README | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
index d8c9111c82a..fef4c0f0b5a 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.
+
+
+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:
+-------------------+ +------------------+