Re: Rosetta: Need re-upload of packages to get upstream translations?

[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> 2008/9/17 Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I can identify ~450 non-junk templates we have unreviewed from Ubuntu
> > packages.
>
> What about the 40 000 PO files that are at "Needs review" [1],
> including ones from packages and ones uploaded from translators. Do
> they somehow need to be manually processed, too, or are all of those
> simply waiting for the respective templates to be approved and then
> they will be too (unless they are "junk")?

I'm sorry for the late reply; I've been having some very distracting 
hardware problems on (top of being busy with this issue).

All files go in as "needs review."  An automated process then tries to 
do the routine approvals.  That mostly means trying to match an upload 
to an already known template; and for translations, figuring out which 
language they're for as well.  The right template name and translation 
domain are attached to the import request, and it can move on to actual 
import.  Other files need to be blocked, which is done by a similar 
process (again with the status of a template influencing the status of 
its translations as well).

This process takes care of most files, but when templates are new (or 
have changed filenames) they often don't get approved in this way.  In 
that case, a human needs to intervene.

Once a template is imported, its translation files are automatically 
approved--assuming that it's clear what template they belong to, and 
their language codes can be confidently extracted from their filenames.

Whether a file needs human review isn't always clear-cut.  For example, 
some new template may be imported, or an existing one renamed, and 
suddenly it becomes approvable.  For example, Evolution has templates 
with names that include the version number.  A template for a new 
version then looks like a completely separate template to the system 
(and in some cases, adding a number to a template name does mean that 
it's a completely different file).  So instead of just importing a 
template evolution-2.24 for Intrepid, we copy evolution-2.22 from Hardy 
along with all its translations; rename that copy to evolution-2.24; and 
then wait for auto-approval to recognize evolution-2.24.pot and its 
translations as simple updates.


> This if of course already a bit OT, but since all my PO uploads always
> go to "Needs review" state instead of "Approved" (the state before
> actual import), I'm wondering how they are processed. And I also
> wonder if the uploads I have lately done will be processed only after
> the current 40k queue is otherwise handled.

The queue entries, once they are approved, are imported in the order of 
the date of their first upload.  If you upload an update, the request 
will keep its original date so you're not bounced to the back of the queue.

Hope this gives a bit more insight into the process.


Jeroen