ABP is an open source and community driven project. This guide is aims to help anyone wants to contribute to the project.
You can always send pull requests to the Github repository.
- Clone the ABP repository from Github.
- Make the required changes.
- Send a pull request.
Before making any change, please discuss it on the Github issues. In this way, no other developer will work on the same issue and your PR will have a better chance to be accepted.
You may want to fix a known bug or work on a planned enhancement. See the issue list on Github.
If you have a feature idea for the framework or modules, create an issue on Github or attend to an existing discussion. Then you can implement it if it's embraced by the community.
You may want to translate the complete documentation (including this one) to your mother language. If so, follow these steps:
- Clone the ABP repository from Github.
- To add a new language, create a new folder inside the docs folder. Folder names can be "en", "es", "fr", "tr" and so on based on the language (see all culture codes).
- Get the "en" folder as a reference for the file names and folder structure. Keep the same naming if you are translating the same documentation.
- Send a pull request (PR) once you translate any document. Please translate documents & send PRs one by one. Don't wait to finish translations for all documents.
There are some fundamental documents need to be translated before publishing a language on the ABP documentation web site:
- Getting Started documents
- Tutorials
- CLI
A new language is published after these minimum translations have been completed.
ABP framework has a flexible localization system. You can create localized user interfaces for your own application.
In addition to that, the framework and the pre-build modules have localized texts. As an example, see the localization texts for the Volo.Abp.UI package.
This is the recommended approach, since it automatically finds all missing texts for a specific culture and lets you to translate in one place.
- Clone the ABP repository from Github.
- Install the ABP CLI if you haven't installed before.
- Run
abp translate -c <culture-name>
command for your language in the root folder of the abp repository. For example, useabp translate -c fr
for French. Check this document to find the culture code for your language. - This command creates a file in the same folder, named
abp-translation.json
. Open this file in your favorite editor and fill the missing text values. - Once you done the translation, use
abp translate -a
command to apply changes to the related files. - Send a pull request on GitHub.
If you want to make a change on a specific resource file, you can find the file yourself, make the necessary change (or create a new file for your language) and send a pull request on GitHub.
If you decide to create some tutorials or blog posts on ABP, please inform us (by creating a Github issue), so we may add a link to your tutorial/post in the official documentation and we can announce it on our Twitter account.
If you find any bug, please create an issue on the Github repository.