AUR Translation ================ This document describes how to create and maintain AUR translations. It was originally derived from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Translation Creating an AUR translation requires a Transifex (http://www.transifex.net/) account. You will need to register with a translation team on the AUR project page (http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/aur/). Creating a New Translation --------------------------- Before beginning, please sign up for an Transifex account and request the addition of a new translation team for the AUR project. Also, please do not translate if you are unwilling to maintain or find someone to maintain the translation. This is due to the fact that the AUR is a rapidly evolving project and there are constantly new strings to be translated. If the translations get too out of sync with the released versions, there will be too many untranslated strings for the translation to be usable, and it may have to be disabled. 1. Check out the AUR source using git: $ git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git aur-git 2. Go into the "po/" directory in the AUR source and run msginit(1) to create a initial translation file from our translation catalog: $ cd aur-git $ git checkout master $ git pull $ cd po $ msginit -l <locale> -o <locale>.po -i aur.pot 3. Use some editor or a translation helper like poedit to add translations: $ poedit <locale>.po 5. If you have a working AUR setup, add a line for the new translation in "web/lib/config.inc.php.proto" and test if everything looks right. 6. Upload the newly created ".po" file to Transifex. If you don't like the web interface, you can also use transifex-client to do that (see below). Updating an Existing Translation --------------------------------- 1. Download current translation files from Transifex. You can also do this using transifex-client which is available through the AUR: $ tx pull -a 2. Update the existing translation file using an editor or a tool like poedit: $ poedit po/<locale>.po 3. Push the updated translation file back to Transifex. Using transifex-client, this works as follows: $ tx push -r aur.aurpot -t -l <locale>