> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gitlocalize.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Roles and notifications

> What each team role can do, how members are added, and which events generate email.

Roles determine what a person can do in a repository. They are assigned under the **Team** tab, and
they are the same for public and private repositories — visibility only affects who can see the
repository at all.

## Permissions

|                        | Translate | Create review requests | Edit translations under review | Open pull requests | Manage the team |
| ---------------------- | :-------: | :--------------------: | :----------------------------: | :----------------: | :-------------: |
| **Owner**              |     ✓     |            ✓           |                ✓               |          ✓         |        ✓        |
| **Admin**              |     ✓     |            ✓           |                ✓               |          ✓         |        ✓        |
| **Language Moderator** |     ✓     |            ✓           |                ✓               |  Own language only |        —        |
| **Translator**         |     ✓     |            ✓           |                —               |          —         |        —        |

### Owner

Assigned automatically to the person who connected the repository.

### Admin

Full control short of ownership: manage the team, create and close review requests, edit translations
awaiting review, and open pull requests.

### Language Moderator

Reviews translations for one language. Can edit translations awaiting review and open pull requests,
but only for the language they moderate.

Moderators are assigned per language. Someone moderating three languages is added three times, once
for each.

### Translator

Adds and updates translations, and creates review requests. Cannot open pull requests — their work
reaches GitHub through a moderator.

### Vendor roles

**Translator (Vendor)** and **Admin (Vendor)** are functionally identical to the regular Translator
and Admin roles. They exist to distinguish people supplied by a third-party language service provider
from your own team.

<Info>
  GitLocalize is operated by [Alconost](https://alconost.com), a multi-language vendor. To have
  translation done professionally rather than in-house or by a community,
  [get in touch](https://gitlocalize.com/inquiries/new).
</Info>

## Adding members

Type a person's GitHub handle, select a role, and click **Add**.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/gitlocalize/lskpih6euvpzy4qL/images/adding-team-members.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=lskpih6euvpzy4qL&q=85&s=46d75f7feaca7f58c58da57a9678a95c" alt="Adding a user to the team" width="2078" height="1392" data-path="images/adding-team-members.png" />
</Frame>

<Note>
  A handle that doesn't autocomplete belongs to someone without a GitLocalize account. They need to
  sign in to GitLocalize once with their GitHub account before they can be added.
</Note>

For a private repository this step is mandatory — people who aren't on the team cannot see the
repository at all. See [Visibility](/visibility).

## Notifications

Notifications follow roles; there is nothing to configure.

| Event                             | Who is notified                             |
| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| Source content is updated         | The translators who translated that content |
| Translations are added or updated | The Language Moderator for that language    |