Call for testing: Trusty langpack updates

[Michael Bauer]

But Fòram still raises a valid point. A lot of the smaller locales rely 
on a small number of contributors and in many cases, these are primarily 
translators with little in the way of developer skills. Requiring 
testing that is not set up to be *ridiculously easy* before a langpack 
is released will raise the technical bar for these languages SO high 
that they'll drop off pretty fast.

I understand the need for ensuring that langpacks don't crash but surely 
there must be a simple way of checking for strings which might cause 
this automatically? I have no idea what CAN cause a langpack to crash 
Ubuntu but I imagine it's missing placeholders or code that has been 
inadvertently introduced. Surely this can be run as an automatic check 
and if not, the surely Canonical could just set up a machine to 
auto-test all langpacks and if any of them crash, to flag it to the 
locale team in question.

Michael

30/05/2014 13:00, sgrìobh ubuntu-translators-request at lists.ubuntu.com:
> Well, irrespective of the size of the language, you need to have Ubuntu
> 14.04 installed, of course, to be able to test. As regards Kubuntu, it's
> not obvious that it's motivated any longer to test that distribution
> separately. We'll take it into consideration.