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[Milo Casagrande <milo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

2009/11/6 David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Translations will still not be visible to translators in the web UI.
> We'd like to at least wait until the first round of imports has been
> done and do some cleanup of the templates.
>
> On that aspect, there are two points I'd like to discuss with the UTC
> team:
>
>      * Making translations visible: I'd like to get some feedback on
>        when you think it would be best to make translations visible on
>        the web UI. This time we can do it straight away, much earlier
>        than usual, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on that. We've
>        got message sharing in place, which means that translations done
>        in Lucid will make it into Karmic and viceversa, but if we open
>        translations early will also mean that those teams not working
>        closely with upstreams might start working on translations
>        before the upstream teams, leading to a potential duplication of
>        work.

We can't base our "opening" on GNOME schedule nor on the Ubuntu Doc
one, 'casuse string freeze for GNOME will be in February and March for
Ubuntu Doc, really too late for other translations to happen.

I'm just throwing there ideas: what about opening them in January?
We can have all November and December to look at the import queue plus
have devs do substantial imports, and that gives 4 months of work for
the translation teams. BTW, GNOME in January will enter string and UI
change announcement period, some kind of "warning" period before UI
and string freeze.

Anyway, every date could be a valid date, the problem of not working
close with upstream still remains since the freeze for GNOME and the
doc will happen late in the cycle. I don't know about KDE and their
release cycle though, and also which version on KDE will be in the
10.04.

On a not-so-side note, can't we have some sort of "banner" in the
translation templates page? I know this will clutter the interface and
probably UI team will not agree, but in that way we could have some
kind of warning (like the "follow the team guidelines").

>      * Translation templates and the imports queue. In order to allow
>        the imports queue to be more automated and require less manual
>        maintenance, it would be very useful to document the cases in
>        which automatic imports do not work before the queue starts
>        getting full. This way the Launchpad Translations developers
>        will be able to improve or cater for those cases. To that
>        purpose, Arne has started a wiki page to coordinate this effort
>        [1]. I would encourage you to follow the instructions there to
>        contribute to a more automated imports process.

Cool, great info page. Will try to take a look at the import queue
this week-end.

Thanks for all your hard work guys!

Ciao.

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Milo Casagrande <milo@xxxxxxxxxx>