Current Intrepid translation issues page
Jeroen Vermeulen
jtv at canonical.com
Fri Oct 24 13:02:24 UTC 2008
Gabor Kelemen wrote:
> I understand that, but
> -the problem still exists
> -then it should be solved some other way: how about grabbing the
> translations exported for language packs, putting them back into the
> last sources and recompiling only with this change?
That's still a pretty long feedback cycle! You're talking about days at
minimum, probably much longer before a newly translated message can make
it back in. Most of this involves how the packages are built (just
outside my daily field of view, so I can't say much about it), but you
mention server and developer time and obviously those are limited. So
unless this turns out to have a really simple solution, we would have to
opt not to do other things that many people will want instead. The fact
that Soyuz, Translations, and Ubuntu are all involved could increase the
engineering cost a lot.
>> So given that, the cycle really should go through upstream.
>
> Even the ubuntu-specific gconf schema descriptions? :)
Obviously not, and I hope at some point we can start looking at
supporting more of those things directly in Launchpad Translations. But
for something like a list of cities in libgweather, I imagine it's
better for both upstream and Ubuntu if Ubuntu translations become
upstream contributions than effectively having them live outside Launchpad!
> Yeah, personally, I hate them too. Perhaps we could declare intltool
> evil and start an anti-xml, anti-custom-formats campaign at conferences
> or something ;).
Hmm... "Have you devised your own XML translation format yet? Then
what are you doing at a party for adults?"
Jeroen
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