Contribute translating

[Alemancillo]

If I want to contribute translating should I make pull requests to the stable branch or the weekly branch? Or all weekly translation updates get merged to stable after a while?

 

[Igor Eisberg]

Weekly branch. We have no choice but to keep a single repository per language, as keeping two of them would demand a lot more work from translators, and some of them are neglecting their translations as it is... we wouldn't want to make it even more of a hassle. And yeah, Stables are mostly based on older Weeklies.

 

[Alemancillo]

Weekly branch. We have no choice but to keep a single repository per language, as keeping two of them would demand a lot more work from translators, and some of them are neglecting their translations as it is... we wouldn't want to make it even more of a hassle. And yeah, Stables are mostly based on older Weeklies.

Great, thanks! I would like to help translating.
My phone is a MIX 3, and it has some functions not shared with the rest of Xiaomi phones. I've read the translation documentation but I didn't understand how to translate those device specific strings. Thank you.

 

[Igor Eisberg]

"perseus" is for Mi Mix 3, it should be in "device" folder in each repository. Example:

https://github.com/MIUICzech-Slovak/MIUI-XML-12-CZECH/tree/master/Czech/device/perseus

 

[Alemancillo]

"perseus" is for Mi Mix 3, it should be in "device" folder in each repository. Example:

https://github.com/MIUICzech-Slovak/MIUI-XML-12-CZECH/tree/master/Czech/device/perseus

I mean some strings located, for example, on MiuiSystemUI.apk only appear on perseus, but if I do a pull request on a specific language translation only "main" is available. So I should update the "device" folder and not the "main" one?

 

[Igor Eisberg]

I mean some strings located, for example, on MiuiSystemUI.apk only appear on perseus, but if I do a pull request on a specific language translation only "main" is available. So I should update the "device" folder and not the "main" one?

You can update main folder if you prefer. It wouldn't matter much. Unused strings are filtered out in build-time, so if we're building Mi MIX 3, they will not be filtered out. That simple.

 

[Oxnap]

You can update main folder if you prefer. It wouldn't matter much. Unused strings are filtered out in build-time, so if we're building Mi MIX 3, they will not be filtered out. That simple.

Interesting. As the OP said, I'd like also to contribute in my language. This is going to help me to do correct pull requests.

 

[Alemancillo]

You can update main folder if you prefer. It wouldn't matter much. Unused strings are filtered out in build-time, so if we're building Mi MIX 3, they will not be filtered out. That simple.

If I see some typo in the English translation how can I help fixing it?

 

[Igor Eisberg]

If I see some typo in the English translation how can I help fixing it?

English can't be touched by translators. What typo are you talking about?

 

[Alemancillo]

English can't be touched by translators. What typo are you talking about?

Nothing relevant, just a few incoherences like the one on the screenshot

 

[Igor Eisberg]

Nothing relevant, just a few incoherences like the one on the screenshot

Unimportant...