Workflow

The following workflow is used to bring a translation into a TYPO3 installation.

  1. English Sources

    The sources in English are maintained in the project itself.

  2. Creating translations on Crowdin.com

    The translations are managed on Crowdin at https://crowdin.com/project/typo3-cms.

    You can either translate all strings on the Crowdin platform or directly in the TYPO3 backend.

  3. Crowdin Bridge

    A separate project is accountable for exporting the translations from Crowdin. This consists of several steps:

    • Trigger a build of all projects
    • Download all translations including multiple branches and all available languages
    • Create zip files of all single xlf files
    • Copy the files to the translation server

  4. Import translations into TYPO3 installations

    The translations can be downloaded within a TYPO3 installation. This is described at Fetching Translations.

Chart

+--------------+                   +----------------+
|  1) GitHub   |                   | 2) Crowdin.com |
|--------------|                   |----------------|
|              |  Automated Sync   |- Translate     |
| TYPO3 Core   |+----------------> |- Proofread     |
|  and         |                   |                |
| Extensions   |                   | in all         |
|              |                   | languages      |
+--------------+                   +----------------+
                                          ^
                                          |
  +---------------------------------------+
  |Triggered via GitHub actions
  v
+-------------------+                 +-----------------------+
| 3) Crowdin Bridge |                 | 4) Translation Server |
|-------------------|                 |-----------------------|
|- Build projects   |                 |- Serves l10n zip      |
|- Download         |     rsync to    |  files, requested     |
|  translations     |+--------------->|  by TYPO3 sites       |
|- Create zips      |                 |- Hosts status page    |
|- Status pages     |                 +-----------------------+
+-------------------+