Upstream translations imports to cosmic might be missing (due to translations sharing launchpad option)

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey translators,

It's the not the first time/cycle that option creates issue, but when
"sharing with an upstream vcs" is being used then the translations from
the package uploads are not being imported.

In theory the vcs sharing is a nice idea, but in practice most of the
GNOME upstream imports on launchpad are outdated or buggy and as a
result the translations don't get updates.

Unsure how that option get turned on again but it was activate on most
desktop/GNOME components (if someone did that please don't do it
again!). I did go through the main applications/desktop component, unset
the option and did no change uploads to cosmic to get the source
translations imported, I didn't do rebuilds for every package though
since a good part looked like they had uptodate enough translations. If
you have a project that you think would benefit from an new import
though, feel free to respond to this email.

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher


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RE: Should the Ubuntu Serverguide be published in languages other than English?

[Doug Smythies]

On 2018.10.01 17:50 Doug Smythies wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Over the years, we have had feedback that system administrators
> prefer the English version of the serverguide, even if English
> is not their first language.
>
> Changes are probably pending for the way the source code for the
> serverguide is managed and edited, as we (well Canonical, actually)
> attempt to make it easier for subject matter experts to contribute.
>
> So the question is: Is there actual demand for publication in
> additional languages besides U.S. English?
>
> We already know the answer for the Dutch translation team. No. [1]
> We also know that most teams don't actually translate it (from
> the translations statistics page [2]).
>
> Only French, Russian, and Italian used to keep translations
> somewhat up-to-date, but not lately. Anyway, it would be good
> to hear from those teams on this subject.
>
>
> [1] 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2017-December/007428.html
> [2] https://translations.launchpad.net/serverguide

In the absence of any feedback, we will assume multi-language support
is NOT a Serverguide requirement moving forward.

... Doug
 


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