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digitalmars.D - A new member of the D Lang community and GSoC aspirant

reply Mir H. S. Quadri <quadrishah846 gmail.com> writes:
Hi everyone,

I am a new member at this forum. I am super excited to get 
started with contributing to D lang. D lang is a great language 
with so much potential.

I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artificial 
Intelligence and I aspire to be a part of GSoC this year. I came 
across the D lang repository from the previous year organisations 
list on the GSoC website. I have always had a dream of 
contributing to a programming language. How cool is that right?!!

Anyway, GSoC aside, I think I have already found the first 
contribution that I would like to make to D Lang. It is to add 
another language to tour.dlang.com. The language that I want to 
add is Urdu. Urdu is an asian language and originates from the 
subcontinent of India. It is also spoken by the majority of 
people in Pakistan and other countries surrounding India. It is a 
vibrant language spoken by over 100 million people in the world.

Making the tutorials for tour.dlang.com available in Urdu will 
have a great impact and outreach as many people from the 
subcontinent aspire to be engineers and programmers. Making the 
tutorials available in their native tongue is a good idea.

I would really appreciate it if someone can list out the steps to 
take in this regard.

Thanks in advance!
Feb 07 2020
next sibling parent Tove <tove fransson.se> writes:
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 11:52:17 UTC, Mir H. S. Quadri 
wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 I am a new member at this forum. I am super excited to get 
 started with contributing to D lang. D lang is a great language 
 with so much potential.

 Making the tutorials for tour.dlang.com available in Urdu will 
 have a great impact and outreach as many people from the 
 subcontinent aspire to be engineers and programmers. Making the 
 tutorials available in their native tongue is a good idea.
Sounds Awesome! Welcome!
Feb 07 2020
prev sibling parent reply Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] <petar.p.kirov gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 11:52:17 UTC, Mir H. S. Quadri 
wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 I am a new member at this forum. I am super excited to get 
 started with contributing to D lang. D lang is a great language 
 with so much potential.

 I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in Artificial 
 Intelligence and I aspire to be a part of GSoC this year. I 
 came across the D lang repository from the previous year 
 organisations list on the GSoC website. I have always had a 
 dream of contributing to a programming language. How cool is 
 that right?!!

 Anyway, GSoC aside, I think I have already found the first 
 contribution that I would like to make to D Lang. It is to add 
 another language to tour.dlang.com. The language that I want to 
 add is Urdu. Urdu is an asian language and originates from the 
 subcontinent of India. It is also spoken by the majority of 
 people in Pakistan and other countries surrounding India. It is 
 a vibrant language spoken by over 100 million people in the 
 world.

 Making the tutorials for tour.dlang.com available in Urdu will 
 have a great impact and outreach as many people from the 
 subcontinent aspire to be engineers and programmers. Making the 
 tutorials available in their native tongue is a good idea.

 I would really appreciate it if someone can list out the steps 
 to take in this regard.

 Thanks in advance!
Hello and welcome aboard! I agree that a great way to start contributing is to translate the tour in another language for all the reasons you mentioned. I am one of the maintainers of the dlang-tour project and I went ahead and created a repository to help you get started: https://github.com/dlang-tour/urdu For now it's just a copy-paste of the English version. The process is as follows: 1. Clone the repository [1] locally. 2. Follow the instructions from language repo [1] and the core [2] on how to run the tour locally, so you could preview your changes. 3. Translate file-by-file. Open a pull-request on GitHub for each translated chapter (file). It's best to start with a single translated file, so you can get feedback on the process as soon as possible. After you get the hang of it I will grant you write permissions to the language repo [1] so you can continue working without our supervision. 4. As soon as you feel there's enough of the repo translated to be presentable, ping us either by opening an issue on the core repo [2] or by opening a thread here on the forums and we will open a pull request to add your language repo as a git submodule (e.g. like this: [3]). At this point your language would be available to read online at this URL: https://tour.dlang.org/tour/ur (ur is the ISO 639-1 language abbreviation). I hope this helps! Good luck with GSOC! [1]: https://github.com/dlang-tour/urdu [2]: https://github.com/dlang-tour/core [3]: https://github.com/dlang-tour/core/commit/ba0a817a1affa5066300a82a6314d056f77f97ee#diff-608039ed72b4ef76d9bf3af5305d07e8 [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
Feb 07 2020
parent Mir H. S. Quadri <quadrishah846 gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 17:38:01 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
 I am one of the maintainers of the dlang-tour project and I 
 went ahead and created a repository to help you get started:
 https://github.com/dlang-tour/urdu

 [...]
Hi, Thank you so much for making the repository and detailing the steps for me. I will get started right away. Thanks again!
Feb 08 2020