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== General tasks ==  
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== General tasks for a new repository ==  
 
* Ensuring that any new project is localized from the start
 
* Ensuring that any new project is localized from the start
 
* Adding a Crowdin config file to the repository
 
* Adding a Crowdin config file to the repository
 
* Correcting any typo in the source code
 
* Correcting any typo in the source code
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== Setting up blogpost/new files for translation ==
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* Commit the blogpost as a new file in https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-translations
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* Add the following sequence to the Crowdin config file
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** https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-translations/blob/main/crowdin.yml
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* Wait 24h max for the replication to happen
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* Manually copy paste the translation to Wordpress
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== Crowdin tasks ==  
 
== Crowdin tasks ==  
=== Changing the synchronisation repository on a regular basis ===
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[[File:Changing the synchronisation repository on a regular basis.png|thumb]]
 
 
=== Creating screenshots of new software to provide context to translators ===
 
=== Creating screenshots of new software to provide context to translators ===
 
[[File:Tagging strings in a screenshot to provide context for translators.png|thumb]]
 
[[File:Tagging strings in a screenshot to provide context for translators.png|thumb]]
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=== Answering the questions of translators ===
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* Answering their messages
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* Fixing issues raised in the source code (while keeping in mind any change will reset translations done in all languages, thus degrading experience)
 
== GitHub tasks ==
 
== GitHub tasks ==
 
* Checking the PR do not introduce bugs before merging them (eg: missing placeholders, very long translations…)
 
* Checking the PR do not introduce bugs before merging them (eg: missing placeholders, very long translations…)
* Checking that old translations do not come back (that happens often, for unknown reasons)
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* Checking that old translations do not come back (that happens on synchronisation)
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** Delete translations that are in English, or that are out-dated (might be missing placeholders), delete Translation Memory entries that are problematic (eg with placeholders) or in English (some translators will use them without checking properly)
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[[Category:Translations]]

Latest revision as of 09:32, 7 April 2023

General tasks for a new repository

  • Ensuring that any new project is localized from the start
  • Adding a Crowdin config file to the repository
  • Correcting any typo in the source code

Setting up blogpost/new files for translation

Crowdin tasks

Creating screenshots of new software to provide context to translators

Tagging strings in a screenshot to provide context for translators.png

Answering the questions of translators

  • Answering their messages
  • Fixing issues raised in the source code (while keeping in mind any change will reset translations done in all languages, thus degrading experience)

GitHub tasks

  • Checking the PR do not introduce bugs before merging them (eg: missing placeholders, very long translations…)
  • Checking that old translations do not come back (that happens on synchronisation)
    • Delete translations that are in English, or that are out-dated (might be missing placeholders), delete Translation Memory entries that are problematic (eg with placeholders) or in English (some translators will use them without checking properly)