Re: [Launchpad-users] Exporting translations of a package in main

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco.fumanti@xxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Thanks for the detailed explanation and particularly, thanks for the links about the exports and about the documentation about upstream.

Cheers,

Francesco.


On 04/27/2010 09:01 PM, David Planella wrote:
> Hi Francesco,
>
> El dv 23 de 04 de 2010 a les 12:34 +0200, en/na Francesco Fumanti va
> escriure:
> [...]
>
> > Moreover, I still don't know how to export the translations created by
> > the Ubuntu translators. Will I not only get the translations provided
> > by the online community if I click on the download link of the Manual
> > Synchronisation section of the following page?
> > https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/onboard/0.93/+translations
>
> The important thing to understand is that in your project there are two
> places where translations can be done:
>
>       1. Upstream project in Launchpad
>       2. Ubuntu source package in Launchpad
>
> On 1. you as the developer chose to enable translations, whereas in 2.
> they were enabled following the Ubuntu policy of exposing all packages
> in main for translation.
>
> You'll find some general info on why we do this and the implications for
> upstreams and for translators here:
>
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Upstream
>
> Now, going back to the question on how to export translations:
>
>        * Upstream project in Launchpad: you can export translations
>          manually using this link [1]. However, to make your life as a
>          maintainer easier, you can activate automatic translation
>          exports here [2] to make
>        * Ubuntu source package in Launchpad: usually the Ubuntu source
>          packages have got more visibility than the upstream packages, as
>          we've got a very big translation community. Therefore, it is
>          usual to have more translations in the Ubuntu packages unless
>          translators themselves forward them to the upstream project.
>          Often as a maintainer you find this situation, and might want to
>          include the additional Ubuntu translations to your package. You
>          can do it by exporting a tarball from here [3].
>
> I realise this is suboptimal, but the Launchpad Translations team are
> actively working towards improving this situation and making upstream
> integration and sharing translations more automated and much more
> useful.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
> [1] https://translations.launchpad.net/onboard/trunk/+export
> [2]
> https://translations.launchpad.net/onboard/trunk/+translations-settings
> [3]
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/onboard/+export