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| author | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2017-05-14 21:25:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2017-05-14 21:29:34 +0200 |
| commit | d48008f16438c2c9c9c7295f550568b82b95ef9e (patch) | |
| tree | 2076f18af4f9c7238ea89a27331838933ac8d89d /guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md | |
| parent | 46adb59b3474351e95ddc2357e67d169d6ffec51 (diff) | |
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explain why guide translations need a fork [ci skip]
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diff --git a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md index 39f4272b3c..2f2962a3e6 100644 --- a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -141,14 +141,15 @@ NOTE: To help our CI servers you should add [ci skip] to your documentation comm Translating Rails Guides ------------------------ -We are happy to have people volunteer to translate the Rails guides into their own language. -If you want to translate the Rails guides in your own language, follows these steps: +We are happy to have people volunteer to translate the Rails guides. Just follow these steps: -* Fork the project (rails/rails). +* Fork https://github.com/rails/rails. * Add a source folder for your own language, for example: *guides/source/it-IT* for Italian. * Copy the contents of *guides/source* into your own language directory and translate them. * Do NOT translate the HTML files, as they are automatically generated. +Note that translations are not submitted to the Rails repository. As detailed above, your work happens in a fork. This is so because in practice documentation maintenance via patches is only sustainable in English. + To generate the guides in HTML format cd into the *guides* directory then run (eg. for it-IT): ```bash |