The translatable part of a software package is available in one or more po files. These files may be maintained in any of a number of version control systems (VCSs) depending on the project, such as CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, and git. They may be hosted on either fedorahosted.org or other systems.

This chapter explains how to translate the projects hosted on fedorahosted.org. Translators work on interface to obtaining and committing po files. Before you start, you must first prepare the directories which hold your po files.

mkdir -p ~/myproject/