Hi Martin, for me it isn't a problem, when a L10N team decide to do not the next release. In the new concept they have to talk about this request. Is it a problem for you?
But in my understanding their isn't a reason to do not release a version, where a lot of work for translation and QA for this translation is done. Why not release that version and wait for feedback. Perhaps the users do not have such a problem with the quality which the L10N team prioritize as a stopper. Without a released version you will not get any feedback about that version. Because to find/download a RC is much more complex as to find/download a stable/released version. But it should be still possible to decide that a version of OOo will not released for a special language. Thorsten Am 18.02.2011 10:16, schrieb Martin Srebotnjak:
Hi *, I have a small problem with the concept of automatic testing and approving as well. The automatic testing after the time for manual testing has passed presumes that all L10N teams want to release their language version. However there could be a situation where the localization would be subpar for the lang team translation quality criteria to release - but in your scenario the team loses the possibility to stop the release in their language (in the old system the lang team simply did not start testing the release). So the change is this: instead of you test and release all builds you can you are proposing we will test and release all if you do not have resources or time Of course the benefit to OOo is that it is released in many more languages. But what good are these numbers if the localizations are not tested by native speakers? The automatic testing doesn't seem to go well with languages that do not have tests localized - will now even languages without localized tests be released as QAed? I know many of these thoughts are speculations on my part, but I just want to open discussion about questions that really matter translation-quality-wise - the testing of which cannot be left to the Hamburg team or computers - as they do not understand/speak ... Slovenian :) Lp, m.
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