Where are my translations?

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

Hi David

2010/6/2 David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com>:
> Hi Ask,
>
> El dc 02 de 06 de 2010 a les 13:05 +0200, en/na Ask Hjorth Larsen va
> escriure:
>> Hi David
>>
>> Thank you very much for the explanation of how strings propagate to
>> Ubuntu.  I have a few extra questions though.
>>
>> 2010/6/2 David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com>:
>> (...)
>> > GNOME Translator translates Empathy documentation
>> >
>> >    |
>> >    v
>> >
>> > GNOME Translation team member commits translation to git.gnome.org after
>> > review
>> >
>> >    |
>> >    v
>> >
>> > Empathy tarball (empathy-<version>.tar.gz) is released from [1],
>> > containing all those translations
>> >
>> >    |
>> >    v
>> >
>> > The empathy tarball is packaged for Ubuntu
>>
>> Who does this, and how frequently? (In rough terms)
>
> Upstream maintainers, how frequently depends on the project release
> schedule. Focusing in GNOME as our major upstream and as an easy
> example: GNOME maintainers, (very roughly) every couple of weeks during
> the development cycle. Basically, every time you see "unstable release"
> on the timeline.
>
>  http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone
>
> There are other upstreams which are packaged in Debian first, so there
> is another step in between (Debian packages -> Ubuntu packages)
>
>>
>> >    |
>> >    v
>> >
>> > Translations are imported into Launchpad
>>
>> By a computer or a human?  Does this automatically happen after the packaging?
>>
>
> Ubuntu developers as humans (some might argue that some of them are
> superhumans) create the packages and upload them to the archive.
> Launchpad (the Soyuz component) picks them up and imports translations
> automatically.
>
>> >    |
>> >    v
>> >
>> > Translations are released as language packs
>>
>> Do you know the flow for ordinary, translatable-in-Rosetta strings?
>
> If I understand your question correctly, it's exactly the same (saving
> known exceptions such as the installer), only that for Ubuntu-specific
> applications upstreams are generally hosted in Launchpad. But that does
> not change the workflow: release (developers) -> packages (packagers) ->
> package upload (packagers) -> translation importing (Launchpad).
>
>> I'm mostly interested in who does what and how often, since that is
>> what I have to know in order to make sure that the translations get
>> through the system
>
> I hope that gave an overview. This is the (very) generic workflow, but
> we do have many upstreams, and there are always some exceptions.

Thank you for the explanation.

>
>>  (I recently opened a bug report because a
>> particular fix didn't make it into the langpack update in spite of
>> having been fixed in Rosetta well before).
>>
>
> If you provide more details and the bug number, I'm sure we can find out
> what happened.

Adi Roiban already me with this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/581403

Admittedly it isn't entirely clear to me why a bug report is
necessary.  I thought that if you fixed something for ubuntu/lucid in
Rosetta, then that fix would be in the next langpack update.

Since that isn't the case, what actually goes into a langpack update?
Only things with bug reports?

Best regards
Ask