TRANSLATORS.rst

Translating Funkwhale

A step-by-step, beginner friendly guide is available at https://contribute.funkwhale.audio/guides/translate/

Thank you for reading this! If you want to help translate Funkwhale, you found the proper place :)

Translation is done via our own Weblate instance at https://translate.funkwhale.audio/projects/funkwhale/front/.

You can signup/login using your Gitlab account (from https://dev.funkwhale.audio).

Translation workflow

Once you're logged-in on the Weblate instance, you can suggest translations. Your suggestions will then be reviewer by the project maintainer or other translators to ensure consistency.

Guidelines

Respecting those guidelines is mandatory if you want your translation to be included:

• Use gender-neutral language and wording

Submitting a new language

1. Pull the latest version of develop
2. Create a new branch, e.g git checkout -b translations-new-fr-ca
3. Add your new language code and name in front/src/locales.js. Use the native language name, as it is what appears in the UI selector.
4. Create the po file from template:

export LOCALE=fr_CA  # replace with your actual locale code
mkdir -p front/locales/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES
msginit --no-wrap --no-translator --locale=$LOCALE --input=front/locales/app.pot --output-file=front/locales/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES/app.po

5. Then commit your changes, push, and submit a pull request on the develop branch

Requesting a new language

If you cannot submit a new language yourself, you can request it by opening an issue here: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/issues

Extracting messages from source

We offer a script to update existing po and pot files with new translations from the source code. This action should be run regularly, and in particular before lots of translation work is expected (e.g a few weeks before a new release), or when the UI code changes a lot. Otherwise, translators end up translating some obsolete messages, or not translationg new messages.

1. Lock the translations on weblate (Lock button in the sidebar). This will prevent translators from working, and help prevent potential conflicts in the source code
2. Commit and push changes from weblate (Commit and Push buttons in the sidebar)
3. Pull develop in your local git repository to ensure you have the latest version of the translations
4. Create a dedicated branch with git checkout -b translations-integration
5. Extract the translations with cd front && ./scripts/i18n-extract.sh. This will update all po files as necessary
6. Review, commit and push the changes, then open a merge request on the develop branch
7. When the MR is merged, Unlock the translations on weblate (Unlock button in the sidebar).