README.md

indieVelo

Translations

Overview

This Github repository is for the crowd-sourcing of translations for multi-language support in indieVelo.

Contributions are warmly welcomed from the entire community - both for corrections and improvements to existing translations, and for the addition of new languages.

Please feel free to join the indieVelo Discord to chat and share any thoughts, ideas or suggestions on translations (or anything else!).

Current Languages

Currently indieVelo supports the following languages (note that the 2-2 letter codes are ISO standard country-locales):

• cs-CZ : Czech
• da-DK : Danish
• de-CH : Swiss German
• de-DE : German
• en-GB : English
• es-ES : Spanish
• fr-FR : French
• hu-HU : Hungarian
• it-IT : Italian
• ja-JP : Japanese
• ms-MY : Malay
• nl-NL : Dutch
• pl-PL : Polish
• pt-BR : Brazilian
• pt-PT : Portugeuse
• ro-RO : Romanian
• ru-RU : Russian
• sl-SL : Slovenian
• sv-SE : Swedish
• zh-TW : Chinese (Traditional)

Other languages it would be great to get help with translating are (in rough order of number of riders on indieVelo):

• Korean
• Norwegian
• Finnish

Any other translations however would also be very gratefully received!

Style Guide

A few miscellaneous notes based on experience from translating so far:

• In general, an informal tone should be used. For example, in French the "tu" form is preferred over "vous", or in German "du" rather than "sie".
• Please follow the same capitalisation as in the original en-GB text. Some text is deliberately entirely upper-case (mostly non-sentences: headings / button labels etc), and some deliberately lower case (mostly complete sentences that are used within menus), and the translations should do the same.
• The English phrase "Bring It On" doesn't necessarily translate literally! This text is shown when you set a new Personal Best record, and should be translated into a suitably idiomatic victory shout / celebration.

How-To

To make a contribution:

1. Create you own free personal account on GitHub.

2. Fork this repository.

   • This creates your own private copy of the files to edit.
   • Click the "Fork" button towards the top right hand corner of this page.

3. Edit any files as needed.

   • Select the files, then click on the pencil icon to edit.
   • If you are updating someone else's translation for anything other than obvious typos, please chat about it first on the indieVelo Discord.
   • Please note that the "en-GB" file is the primary translation and should not be edited (unless you spot a typo!). Any translations into other languages should use this as the reference point for the meaning and intent for each phrase. If adding a new language, take a copy of the contents of the "en-GB" file, rename it to the new language and then edit the new file directly.

4. Commit the update.

   • This only changes your own private copy of the files, not the main copies stored here.
   • Click on the "Commit Update" button that appears after you edit the file.
   • Note that you can make multiple edits and multiple commits before actually submitting any changes as below.

5. Create a pull request.

   • This submits all the changes to your private copy of the files for review into the main indieVelo code.
   • Click on the "Pull Request" button towards the top left hand corner of the page.
   • Then click on the "New Pull Request" button towards the top right hand corner of the page.
   • The click on the "Create Pull Request" button towards the top left hand corner of the page.
   • If this is your first edit, please do add your real name to the comments so that you can be credited properly within the indieVelo application.
   • Finally, click on the new "Create Pull Request" button towards the bottom of the area where you can add any comments.

6. Wait for it to be approved.

   • Once approved, changes will be made live to indieVelo almost instantly, without the need to wait for a new release.