From: hwansing@mailbox.org
Hi Jayant,
Jayant Arya wrote (Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:16:38
+0530):
> I am Jayant Arya, a high school student and also an open source
> enthusiast. I have been using Debian and Debian-based distributions for
> about 1.5 years, and as of now I use Debian 13. I know it may seem I
> don't have much experience in technical things, but I want to volunteer
> myself for the translation purposes. I noticed that the d-i project is
> not available in my language, i.e. Hindi (~480 million speakers). I am
> also aware that it is not humanly possible for one single person to
> translate the whole documentation, I hope more people will be willing to
> join the translation efforts if there is an ongoing transnational work.
thanks for your interest and offer to help!
We usually ask new people to contribute their work in one of several
possible ways (as described below) for some time, before they get full
write access to the whole git repositories.
Please note that the debian-installer is indeed available in Hindi.
The translation status is not that bad (98% translated), that is only
little work to do.
Please find translation statistics here:
https://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/
If you want to work on this, I propose you either sent the translated
po files from
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/-/tree/master/packag
s/po?ref_type=heads
here to the list or personally to me, or file a bugreport on bugs.debian.
org.
Or if you prefer to use a web-based translation workflow, you can register
an account at https://hosted.weblate.org/
and work via https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-installer/.
Or a third possibility to contribute your work is via a merge request on
salsa.debian.org.
See https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2019/11/msg00092.html
and
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/forking_workflow.html
if this is new for you.
Another target:
Since you write about translating documentation above, you meant to
translate
the Debian Installation Guide into Hindi, maybe?
Such translation does not exist indeed.
It's much work however, when starting from zero, as you already know.
As with the installer itself, you can work on po files directly or use
Weblate for the installation-guide as well:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/tre
/master/po/pot?ref_type=heads
or
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-installation-guide/
Please let me know, if you want to use Weblate; I can activate Hindi
there, if you want.
Besides this, I would welcome if you could complete the translation of
the installer itself into Hindi, as written above. That's not much work,
as far as I can see.
Hope to hear from you
Holger
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