Weblate FAQ

Why Weblate?

Please see the problem statement and proposed solution in the R Project Sprint 2023's Weblate project.

How to add a new language for a component?

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/

How to add a new component?

Only Weblate admins can do that. For now, please reach out to @daroczig.

1. Go the the R Project project dashboard
2. Click on the "Add new translation component" button at the bottom of the page
3. 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
4. Source code repo should point to weblate://r-project/base-r-gui (this is set to auto-poll the SVN repo)
5. File format should be gettext PO file
6. Provide file mask, e.g. src/library/base/po/*.po or src/library/compiler/po/R-*.po
7. 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$)[a-z][^.]+$

TODO: update this while adding a new component in the future