From 3d60b5e23e878ca28e823fa65b06d67de95a6588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alejandra <90076947+alejsdev@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:35:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=9D=20Add=20discussion=20template=20fo?= =?UTF-8?q?r=20new=20language=20translation=20requests=20(#13535)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Sebastiรกn Ramรญrez --- .github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/translations.yml | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++ docs/en/docs/contributing.md | 37 +++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/translations.yml diff --git a/.github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/translations.yml b/.github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/translations.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..16e304d99 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/translations.yml @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +labels: [lang-all] +body: + - type: markdown + attributes: + value: | + Thanks for your interest in helping translate the FastAPI docs! ๐ŸŒ + + Please follow these instructions carefully to propose a new language translation. ๐Ÿ™ + + This structured process helps ensure translations can be properly maintained long-term. + - type: checkboxes + id: checks + attributes: + label: Initial Checks + description: Please confirm and check all the following options. + options: + - label: I checked that this language is not already being translated in FastAPI docs. + required: true + - label: I searched existing discussions to ensure no one else proposed this language. + required: true + - label: I am a native speaker of the language I want to help translate. + required: true + - type: input + id: language + attributes: + label: Target Language + description: What language do you want to translate the FastAPI docs into? + placeholder: e.g. Latin + validations: + required: true + - type: textarea + id: additional_info + attributes: + label: Additional Information + description: Any other relevant information about your translation proposal + - type: markdown + attributes: + value: | + Translations are automatized with AI and then reviewed by native speakers. ๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿ™‹ + + This allows us to keep them consistent and up-to-date. + + If there are several native speakers commenting on this discussion and + committing to help review new translations, the FastAPI team will review it + and potentially make it an official translation. ๐Ÿ˜Ž diff --git a/docs/en/docs/contributing.md b/docs/en/docs/contributing.md index 91c39c927..2583fd1fb 100644 --- a/docs/en/docs/contributing.md +++ b/docs/en/docs/contributing.md @@ -315,30 +315,47 @@ Now you can translate it all and see how it looks as you save the file. Some of these files are updated very frequently and a translation would always be behind, or they include the main content from English source files, etc. +#### Request a New Language + +Let's say that you want to request translations for a language that is not yet translated, not even some pages. For example, Latin. + +If there is no discussion for that language, you can start by requesting the new language. For that, you can follow these steps: + +* Create a new discussion following the template. +* Get a few native speakers to comment on the discussion and commit to help review translations for that language. + +Once there are several people in the discussion, the FastAPI team can evaluate it and can make it an official translation. + +Then the docs will be automatically translated using AI, and the team of native speakers can review the translation, and help tweak the AI prompts. + +Once there's a new translation, for example if docs are updated or there's a new section, there will be a comment in the same discussion with the link to the new translation to review. + #### New Language -Let's say that you want to add translations for a language that is not yet translated, not even some pages. +/// note -Let's say you want to add translations for Creole, and it's not yet there in the docs. +These steps will be performed by the FastAPI team. + +/// -Checking the link from above, the code for "Creole" is `ht`. +Checking the link from above (List of ISO 639-1 codes), you can see that the 2-letter code for Latin is `la`. -The next step is to run the script to generate a new translation directory: +Now you can create a new directory for the new language, running the following script:
```console // Use the command new-lang, pass the language code as a CLI argument -$ python ./scripts/docs.py new-lang ht +$ python ./scripts/docs.py new-lang la -Successfully initialized: docs/ht +Successfully initialized: docs/la ```
-Now you can check in your code editor the newly created directory `docs/ht/`. +Now you can check in your code editor the newly created directory `docs/la/`. -That command created a file `docs/ht/mkdocs.yml` with a simple config that inherits everything from the `en` version: +That command created a file `docs/la/mkdocs.yml` with a simple config that inherits everything from the `en` version: ```yaml INHERIT: ../en/mkdocs.yml @@ -350,11 +367,11 @@ You could also simply create that file with those contents manually. /// -That command also created a dummy file `docs/ht/index.md` for the main page, you can start by translating that one. +That command also created a dummy file `docs/la/index.md` for the main page, you can start by translating that one. You can continue with the previous instructions for an "Existing Language" for that process. -You can make the first pull request with those two files, `docs/ht/mkdocs.yml` and `docs/ht/index.md`. ๐ŸŽ‰ +You can make the first pull request with those two files, `docs/la/mkdocs.yml` and `docs/la/index.md`. ๐ŸŽ‰ #### Preview the result