Contribution.md

Contributing to the Voyager Translations

Here's a simple guide on how you can contribute a new language for voyager

All the files required to contribute for a new language are present here in this repository itself, so not needed to go anywhere.

Steps to Contribute

• Step 1: Forking this Repository
  • If you don't have github account you can create it here
  • To fork this repository to you account you can click on the fork button at top of this repository home page
    • This will redirect you to a new page, which is simply asking you to give it a name and then it will be present on your account
    • You can read more about forking here
• Step 2: Cloning this Repository
  • Once the repository is forked, Goto the page where you have forked this repository
  • Click on the Code button
    • 
  • Then Copy the URL to the repository which should be like https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/voyager-translations.git or git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/voyager-translations.git
    • 
  • Then goto your desktop and open a terminal and run command
    • git clone URL_WHICH_YOU_HAVE_COPIED_ABOVE
  • After cloning, you should have a folder name voyager-translations inside the folder where you have ran the above command
• Step 3: Creating a new branch
  • After Cloning, Goto inside that folder from your terminal with a command like
    • cd voyager-translations
  • Then create a new branch for which language you want to contribute for e.g jp for japanese, hi for hindi
    • git branch -b YOUR_LANGUAGE_BRANCH
• Step 4: Making Changes
  • Once you have changed your branch, open your code editor e.g VS Code
    • You can do it for example like code . from terminal itself if you have vscode install
    • Alternatively, you can open VS Code, and Use Open a Project from file menu, and navigate to voyager-translations folder.
  • Then make a copy the en folder
    • For command line folks you can use cp -r ./en ./YOUR_LANGUAGE
  • After making a copy rename that en copy folder to the language for which you want contribute for e.g jp
  • Then navigate to the file YOUR_LANGUAGE/translations.json and open that in editor
    • For example here in our case it would be jp/translations.json
  • In the file you can see a structure

    ...
    "blocks": "Blocks",
    "transactions": "Transactions",
    "contracts": "Contracts",
    ...
    

    • Now, we just have to translate All the English Text Such as "Blocks", "Transactions", ... to the language for which we want to contribute
  • Once done make sure to save you file.
• Step 5: Commiting your change
  • Now, we have made the contribution and all the changes are present in the file for our language e.g jp/translations.json. We just have to commit our changes in git and we are ready to make a PR (Pull Request).
  • To commit to the changes goto your terminal, inside the voyager-translations folder
    • Then to commit git commit -m "YOUR MESSAGE FOR THE COMMIT e.g Japanese Translation"
    • If the above command did ran successfully we have commit to our changes.
  • Not to send out changes to github
    • We can send it via git push
    • NOTE: If you get error like fatal: The current branch YOUR_BRANCH_NAME has no upstream branch., don't panic just use the command mentioned below.
      • Which should be something like git push --set-upstream origin YOUR_BRANCH_NAME
  • If we have pushed successfully, we can view that branch in our github account in web browser
• Step 6: Creating a PR(Pull Request)
  • This is the final step to make your contribution to be included in the translations.
  • Creating a PR is simple, You navigate to your branch in the github repository page.
  • Then Click Contribute and then Open a pull request to the main repository

You can also refer here to this article on How to Contribute to Projects on Github