1=========================== 2Virt-Viewer Message Translation 3=========================== 4 5.. image:: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/widgets/virt-viewer/-/virt-viewer/multi-auto.svg 6 :target: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/engage/virt-viewer/ 7 :alt: Translation status 8 9Virt-Viewer translatable messages are maintained using the GNU Gettext tools and 10file formats, in combination with the Fedora Weblate web service. 11 12https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/virt-viewer/virt-viewer/ 13 14Source repository 15================= 16 17The virt-viewer GIT repository stores the master "virt-viewer.pot" file, which is to be 18refreshed at time of feature freeze. 19 20The "po" files stored in GIT have source locations removed in order to cut down 21on storage size, by eliminating information already present in the "pot" file. 22All files are stored with strings sorted in alphabetical order rather than 23source location order, to minimize movement of strings when source locations 24change. 25 26The "po" files are to be EXCLUSIVELY UPDATED by merge requests sent from the 27Fedora Weblate service. Other contributors MUST NEVER send changes which touch 28the "po" file content, as that will create merge conflicts for Weblate. IOW any 29bug fixes to translations should be made via the Weblate application UI. 30 31After the "pot" file in virt-viewer GIT, Weblate will automatically run "msgmerge" 32to update the "po" files itself and send back a merge request with the changes. 33 34Translation updates made in the Weblate Web UI will be committed to its fork of 35the GIT repo once a day. These commits will be submitted back to the master GIT 36repo via merge requests. If a merge request from Weblate is already open, 37commits will be added to this existing merge request. Weblate will take care of 38rebasing whenever changes happen in Git master. In order to avoid having to do 39translations merges 30 times a month, merge requests from Weblate will usually 40be left open until feature freeze arrives. During the freeze period, they will 41be accepted more promptly to ensure they make it into the new release. 42