There was a discussion yesterday on irc about simplifying the translation process. Stonecrest was basically saying that having to go through git might turn off some potential translators, and confuse others. And I agree with that. Translators actually don't even need the pacman source tree, here is how the process can go : 19:53 stonecrest >> 1. release coming 2. string freeze 3. dan updates po files 4. people download po files from gitweb and update them 5. people submit them 19:54 stonecrest >> and you can continue making any changes to pacman during that process that don't change strings. So first, I would like to know the opinion of others (especially the existing translators) about this procedure. And then, I tried to update the translation-help accordingly, but I am not sure how bad my changes are, so if others could also comment on that and suggest improvements, it would be great :) Note : the patch is based on Dan's working branch since he converted translation-help to asciidoc there.