Do I really need an Editor to approve if I’m the author of a plugin?

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Hi everyone!
I wrote my second accepted pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party for WordPress. As last time, I cannot approve my own translations of the readme.txt files. The rest of the translations is done by my own .moMO files MO, or Machine Object is a binary data file that contains object data referenced by a program. It is typically used to translate program code, and may be loaded or imported into the GNU gettext program. This is the format used in a WordPress install. These files are normally located inside .../wp-content/languages//.po filesPO files PO files are human readable files which contain translations we use. These files are not used by WordPress itself. Each language will have its own PO file, for example, for French there would be a fr_FR.po file, for german there would be a de_DE.po, for British English there might be en_GB.po. in my language folder of my plugins. That’s not the problem.
But if I want to publish my translations of the readme.txt, I simply do not want to bother anybody with the rights of an Editor by asking: could you please have the kindness to approve my translations.

My question:
If I speak more than one language and if I’m a developer, is there a way, I can handle the translations of the readme.txt file by myself? – Maybe I didn’t find it.

Thank you for any comment and help!

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 8:05 am on August 20, 2020

Hi,
Over at https://translate.wordpress.org/ a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party author does not get any editor role automatically. The reason is that they (most probably) don’t know the language of some 200 localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ well enough to ensure themselves that all translations are correct and follow both the general/global guidelines and the local style guide (if any).

So please ask here for PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after a request by the project author or by the contributors themselves. status for those languages you know well, and you’ll most probably get those granted.

If your users are running WordPress 4.6 or later, the translation from translate.wordpress.orgtranslate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins. will have preference over any translation included in the plugin itself. Once a language pack has been formed (see https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/leftsell/language-packs/ ) then you can safely remove the corresponding translation from your plugin.
- Kundschaft Schweiz 8:35 am on August 20, 2020
  
  Hi, thank you very much, I appreciate your answer!

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