Call for testing: Trusty langpack updates

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2014-05-30 14:26, Michael Bauer wrote:
> On 2014-05-29 20:50, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 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'm not sure about "ridiculously", but the test steps, that the
translating teams are asked to carry out, seem pretty easy to me.

> 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.

Probably you are right, and probably it's about priorities. Can you (or
somebody else who reads this) file a wishlist bug?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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