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Weblate FAQ
Please see the problem statement and proposed solution in the R Project Sprint 2023's Weblate project.
Each R package has been implemented as at least one component in Weblate, referring to the strings to be translated in a PO file.
When a package includes multiple PO files (e.g. one for the strings extracted from the C sources, another one for the strings extracted from the R sources, and another one for the GUI strings), then there are multiple components for a package.
After logging in and selecting a component, you should see a "Start new translation" button at the bottom of the page, see e.g. at https://translate.rx.studio/projects/r-project/base-c/
Only Weblate admins can do that. For now, please reach out to @daroczig or @MichaelChirico.
- Go the the R Project project dashboard
- Click on the "Add new translation component" button at the bottom of the page
- Provide a name for the component following the naming schema of the other components (package name optionally followed by R or C files between parens, e.g.
methods (R files)). It is required to split a package into (at least) two components when there are multiple PO files around, e.g. for R and C files, sometime even a 3rd one for the GUI - Source code repo should point to
weblate://r-project/base-r-gui(this is set to auto-poll the SVN repo) - File format is usually
gettext PO file(for strings extracted from R core and recommended packages), or e.g. iOS strings (for Mac GUI) - Provide file mask, e.g.
src/library/base/po/*.poorsrc/library/compiler/po/R-*.po - Set a Language filter when needed to guide Weblate which files to pick up (e.g. to exclude the PO files starting with
R(part of the "R files" component) for the "C files" component, something like^(?!en$)[a-z][^.]+$
See above for the definition of a "component", and based on that, see the section on "How to add a new component?".