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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hello, and sorry for a bit late reply

On 2019-06-16 09:58, Jwtiyar ali wrote:
> i have added my kurdish(sorani) language as default language to my
> system, now iam working on translation, how i can make system update
> its language pack every time a new translation added to launchapad
> translation?

For languages which have language packs in Ubuntu, those language packs 
are updated weekly in the development version a few months before each 
release. So for those, the translators have to wait for the next 
language pack update to see the result of recently translated strings.

However, language packs are not created for all languages. A threshold 
is applied so language packs are created only for languages where at 
least 5% of the strings have been translated. As regards Kurdish 
(Sorani), and if I do the math correctly, only 0.6% of the strings are 
translated currently.

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/eoan/+lang/ckb

Almost 13000 more strings need to be translated into Kurdish (Sorani) to 
reach 5%.

Until that has happened, and thus until the creation of the ckb language 
packs has started, I don't really see a practicable way to study the 
result of the translations.

Now, that 5% threshold is not a natural law. I can think of asking for 
an exception in order to make it easier to establish Kurdish (Sorani) as 
one of the supported languages in Ubuntu, i.e. with ckb language packs. 
But before I try that, I'd like to see a substantial increase of the 
number of translated strings. Say approximately 4000 more translations 
to reach ~2%.

It's not doable to explain all aspects of Ubuntu in a reply like this. 
Please feel welcome to ask for clarifications.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj