This repository contains three different types of files:
- Directory
sentencescontains sentence templates. These are sentences that match user input to intents. - Directory
testscontain test sentences. These are example user input and the intent that we should match it to. - Directory
responsescontain response templates. These are used by Home Assistant to generate responses
We prefer a lot of small contributions over a few large ones. Contributions that contain a lot of changes are hard to review. That's why we want each contribution limited to a single language and single domain.
The filenames of sentences and tests are named like <domain>_<intent>.yaml. So if you are contributing to the cover domain, you would only add sentences and tests to cover_HassCoverOpen.yaml and cover_HassCoverClose.yaml.
New languages should be based on the output of python3 -m script.intentfest add_language <language code> <language name>, which generates an empty language directory with all the files needed for a new language.
Limit the first contribution to translations of the error sentences in _common.yaml and adding sentences and tests for the homeassistant domain.
If you are unable to run the add_language script locally, ask in Discord to have a maintainer run it for you.
There are several workflows available to contribute:
- For small edits to existing files, you can edit directly on Github
- A complete online development environment is available with Github codespaces
- Local development should be done by forking and setting up a local development environment