Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2259
File: holidays/locale/en_IN/LC_MESSAGES/IN.po:285-299
Timestamp: 2025-03-08T11:28:48.652Z
Learning: In the holidays project, message IDs (msgids) in locale files use region-specific naming conventions (e.g., "Muharram", "Id-ul-Fitr" in en_IN locale for India), while translator comments use internationally recognized names from the project's default locale (en_US) such as "Ashura", "Eid al-Fitr". This difference is intentional for proper localization.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2684
File: holidays/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/SM.po:13-13
Timestamp: 2025-06-28T10:39:19.185Z
Learning: In the holidays project, .po file header comments use the format "# [Country] holidays." for default language files (without trailing hash) and "# [Country] holidays [locale] localization." for non-default language files (also without trailing hash).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: holidays/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/AD.po:31-40
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T15:25:44.333Z
Learning: In the Holidays project, msgid fields in localization files contain strings in the entity's default language (as defined by default_language attribute), not English source strings as in standard gettext implementations.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2259
File: holidays/locale/en_IN/LC_MESSAGES/IN.po:30-299
Timestamp: 2025-03-05T17:51:00.633Z
Learning: In the Holidays project, .po files for a country's default locale use empty msgstr fields as a standard convention.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2676
File: holidays/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/EG.po:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-06-25T10:09:29.029Z
Learning: In the holidays library, msgstr fields can be left empty for source/default_language files when using Lingva, the localization tool used by the project.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/en_CI/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:88-88
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T18:25:07.087Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization files have a specific structure: message comments are in standard English (en_US) describing the holiday, while actual translations (msgstr) should use the locale-specific terminology (e.g., en_CI for Ivory Coast English). For example, "Night of Power" in standard English is translated as "Lailatou-Kadr" in Ivory Coast English.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2438
File: holidays/locale/ar_IQ/LC_MESSAGES/IQ.po:35-81
Timestamp: 2025-04-17T17:08:48.082Z
Learning: In holiday PO files, when the file represents the default language of an entity (e.g., ar_IQ for Iraq), no translations in `msgstr` are required as the `msgid` values are already in the target language.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/locale/en_VC/LC_MESSAGES/VC.po:1-14
Timestamp: 2025-06-10T12:17:58.880Z
Learning: In the holidays project, .po files should use the full multi-line header format including the project description, authors, website, and license information, rather than a single-line comment format.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2388
File: holidays/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po:28-101
Timestamp: 2025-03-30T13:33:31.598Z
Learning: In the holidays library, for localization files of the default language (like French for Ivory Coast in fr/LC_MESSAGES/CI.po), the best practice is to leave the message strings (msgstr) empty to avoid possible typos, since the message IDs (msgid) are already in the target language.

Learnt from: ankushhKapoor
PR: vacanza/holidays#2601
File: holidays/locale/en_MN/LC_MESSAGES/MN.po:13-14
Timestamp: 2025-06-11T18:32:25.595Z
Learning: For non-default locale `.po` files, the header comment format is:
`# <Country> holidays <locale> localization.` (no trailing hash).

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2530
File: tests/countries/test_andorra.py:23-28
Timestamp: 2025-05-06T21:07:11.577Z
Learning: In the holidays project, test methods for country holidays follow a standard form where year ranges are explicitly recreated in each test method rather than being stored as class variables, to maintain consistency across all country tests.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2398
File: tests/countries/test_guinea.py:237-239
Timestamp: 2025-04-02T18:38:35.164Z
Learning: In the vacanza/holidays project, the method assertLocalizedHolidays in country test files should be called with positional parameters rather than named parameters to maintain consistency with the rest of the codebase.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2483
File: holidays/countries/turks_and_caicos_islands.py:117-118
Timestamp: 2025-05-13T13:23:11.375Z
Learning: The holidays library uses `_add_christmas_day_two` method to add Boxing Day holiday, not `_add_boxing_day`.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2631
File: holidays/countries/sint_maarten.py:94-95
Timestamp: 2025-06-14T20:43:15.370Z
Learning: The `_add_*` helper methods in the holidays library (such as `_add_christmas_day_two()`, `_add_labor_day()`, etc.) don't have default holiday names, so the name parameter should always be explicitly specified when calling these methods.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2831
File: holidays/countries/south_sudan.py:84-88
Timestamp: 2025-08-19T21:00:47.849Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Islamic holidays use dedicated methods for additional days (like `_add_eid_al_fitr_day_two`, `_add_eid_al_adha_day_two`) rather than parameters. The methods don't accept a `days` parameter - each day has its own specific method.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2843
File: holidays/countries/burundi.py:63-101
Timestamp: 2025-08-21T04:56:03.780Z
Learning: In the holidays library, countries with localization support consistently use tr() wrappers around holiday names when calling _add_* methods (e.g., self._add_new_years_day(tr("Holiday Name"))). This is the established pattern across United States, Thailand, and other l10n-enabled countries, contrary to any suggestion that translation is handled internally by _add_* methods.

Learnt from: Wasif-Shahzad
PR: vacanza/holidays#2409
File: holidays/countries/qatar.py:27-46
Timestamp: 2025-04-03T16:58:27.175Z
Learning: In the holidays library, method names like `_add_holiday_2nd_tue_of_feb()` and `_add_holiday_1st_sun_of_mar()` use calendar constants like FEB, TUE, MAR, and SUN internally through parent class implementations even when these constants don't appear directly in the file.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2614
File: holidays/countries/guyana.py:146-179
Timestamp: 2025-06-14T20:12:37.212Z
Learning: The `_CustomHinduHolidays` mechanism works through `_CustomCalendarType` metaclass which renames public attributes (like `DIWALI_INDIA_DATES`) with a postfix, allowing `_HinduLunisolar::_get_holiday` to find and use custom holiday dates. When `_add_diwali_india()` is called, it uses the custom dates if available rather than calculated dates.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2654
File: holidays/countries/cabo_verde.py:133-141
Timestamp: 2025-07-14T20:23:48.198Z
Learning: The holidays library provides helper methods `_add_holiday_2nd_sun_of_may()` and `_add_holiday_3rd_sun_of_jun()` for adding holidays on the 2nd Sunday of May and 3rd Sunday of June respectively. These methods are used across multiple country implementations including Latvia, Finland, Belarus, Malaysia, Madagascar, and Cape Verde.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:32:15.760Z
Learning: In the holidays package, detailed historical context and additional information should be added as comments at the method level or above conditional blocks, while comments directly above tr() function calls should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.").

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2833
File: holidays/countries/uganda.py:50-56
Timestamp: 2025-08-25T09:57:22.291Z
Learning: In the holidays package, when adding comments for year-restricted holidays in Uganda and similar country modules, include specific legal or historical context such as the actual laws, parliamentary acts, or government decisions that established the holidays, rather than just generic "since YEAR" information. For example, reference the specific Parliament act, decree, or historical event that created the holiday.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2642
File: holidays/countries/french_southern_territories.py:41-44
Timestamp: 2025-06-18T10:07:58.780Z
Learning: Territorial holiday classes that inherit from parent countries (like HolidaysAX from Finland, HolidaysSJ from Norway, HolidaysTF from France) follow a standard pattern of silently overriding self.subdiv in their _populate_public_holidays() method without validation, as this ensures they always use the correct subdivision code for their territory regardless of user input.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2643
File: holidays/countries/mauritius.py:144-169
Timestamp: 2025-06-19T02:34:18.382Z
Learning: Custom holiday classes that extend _CustomHinduHolidays, _CustomIslamicHolidays, _CustomBuddhistHolidays, etc. in the holidays library do not use docstrings. They follow a pattern of using only inline comments above date dictionaries, as seen in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, and other country implementations.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2794
File: holidays/groups/christian.py:328-343
Timestamp: 2025-08-11T10:14:28.517Z
Learning: For Ethiopian holidays in the `holidays/groups/christian.py` file, docstring wording should maintain source-accurate phrasing (e.g., "in coincidence of" for Ethiopian New Year/Enkutatash), even when it might read awkwardly in English, to ensure consistency with official Ethiopian documentation.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2687
File: holidays/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/CF.po:13-28
Timestamp: 2025-06-29T09:37:35.283Z
Learning: In the holidays project, .po files follow a standard formatting convention where there is always a blank line after the metadata header section (after the "X-Source-Language" line). This blank line separates the header from the actual translation content and should not be removed.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2402
File: holidays/locale/en_TT/LC_MESSAGES/TT.po:46-48
Timestamp: 2025-04-05T08:12:19.986Z
Learning: In the holidays library, localization (PO) files follow this convention: comments (#.) always use American English (en_US) spelling, while the msgid content follows the locale-specific spelling standards of the target language.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2944
File: holidays/countries/myanmar.py:108-111
Timestamp: 2025-09-17T15:53:16.940Z
Learning: In the holidays package, explanatory comments about year restrictions or policy context should be placed above conditional blocks or at method level, never directly above holiday name comments that precede tr() function calls, as this would include the explanatory text in .po localization files when running `make l10n`.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2651
File: holidays/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/BQ.po:29-95
Timestamp: 2025-06-25T20:55:00.642Z
Learning: In the holidays library, Dutch locale files (.po) with `X-Source-Language: nl` should have empty msgstr entries when the target language is also Dutch. The library uses fallback=True with gettext, which returns the original msgid when msgstr is empty. This is the correct pattern for native language files and does not cause blank holiday names.

Learnt from: KJhellico
PR: vacanza/holidays#2459
File: holidays/locale/en_HK/LC_MESSAGES/HK.po:190-191
Timestamp: 2025-04-10T10:58:12.704Z
Learning: The maximum line length for .po files in the holidays repository is 99 characters. Comment lines should be consolidated only if the resulting line doesn't exceed this limit.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2608
File: holidays/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/VC.po:76-76
Timestamp: 2025-06-10T05:08:07.939Z
Learning: For the holidays project, localization file formatting issues (like missing terminal periods in .po files) should be automatically fixed by running `make l10n` command (which is included in `make check`). Authors should be directed to use this automated tooling instead of manual formatting fixes.

Learnt from: PPsyrius
PR: vacanza/holidays#2537
File: holidays/countries/finland.py:249-253
Timestamp: 2025-05-10T04:02:13.815Z
Learning: Holiday name comments directly above tr() function calls in the holidays package should only contain the holiday name itself (e.g., "# Independence Day.") without any additional context, dates, or historical information.