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  po/README: Update directions for l10n contributors
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@ -10,10 +10,26 @@ coordinates our localization effort in the l10 coordinator repository:
https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
The two character language translation codes are defined by ISO_639-1, as
stated in the gettext(1) full manual, appendix A.1, Usual Language Codes.
Contributing to an existing translation
---------------------------------------
As a contributor for a language XX, you should first check TEAMS file in
this directory to see whether a dedicated repository for your language XX
exists. Fork the dedicated repository and start to work if it exists.
Sometime, contributors may find that the translations of their Git
distributions are quite different with the translations of the
corresponding version from Git official. This is because some Git
distributions (such as from Ubuntu, etc.) have their own l10n workflow.
For this case, wrong translations should be reported and fixed through
their workflows.
Creating a new language translation
-----------------------------------
If you are the first contributor for the language XX, please fork this
repository, prepare and/or update the translated message file po/XX.po
(described later), and ask the l10n coordinator to pull your work.
@ -23,6 +39,9 @@ coordinate among yourselves and nominate the team leader for your
language, so that the l10n coordinator only needs to interact with one
person per language.
Translation Process Flow
------------------------
The overall data-flow looks like this:
+-------------------+ +------------------+