Notes about translation of Ubuntu 18.04

[Simos Xenitellis]

Hi Gunnar,

Do the daily ISOs get the exported Launchpad translations of the previous day?
If not, when do the translations make it to the daily ISOs?

Simos

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 2.5 weeks left until final freeze, and I'd like to call your attention to a
> few things.
>
> The translation coverage of the snapd package (the snappy template) is poor
> in many languages. Some issues with the translation template have probably
> contributed to that, but also the fact that the template has had too low
> priority in the Launchpad interface. I have raised the priority, so now the
> snappy template is shown on the first page of the translation overview for
> respective language, for instance:
>
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+lang/gl
>
> It should be noted that Launchpad is upstream for the snapd translations.
>
> After the switch to GNOME, some of the core GNOME packages are more
> important than when Unity was default in Ubuntu. The GNOME packages are
> translated upstream, and in many cases the upstream translations are simply
> imported to LP and added to our language packs and there is not much to do
> for the translators on the Ubuntu side.
>
> But..
>
> Some of the GNOME packages have Ubuntu modifications with translatable
> strings which have to be translated via Launchpad.
>
> gnome-software
> gnome-control-center
> gnome-online-accounts
> gnome-session
>
> I'm sure there are more of the kind, but the ones mentioned are some of the
> most important. (Also, due to various packaging issues some of the Ubuntu
> specific strings have been made available at Launchpad just recently.)
>
> It may consequently be a good idea to review the Launchpad translation
> overview and look for GNOME templates with untranslated strings, even for
> packages which you know are fully translated upstream.
>
> As regards the Ubuntu Desktop Guide: As mentioned previously, the desktop
> guide now consists to >90% of pages from the gnome-user-docs and
> gnome-getting-started-docs packages, which are translated upstream only. The
> ubuntu-docs package (template ubuntu-help), which adds a few pages, is
> translated at LP, though.
>
> That's it for now. Please don't hesitate to ask for clarifications. And, if
> you encounter Ubuntu issues when translating, please file bug reports
> against the ubuntu-translations project.
>
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> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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