Hi David and Andrej On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM, David Planella <david.plane...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi Andrej, > > El dj 19 de 08 de 2010 a les 09:27 +0200, en/na Andrej Žnidaršič va > escriure: >> Hello ! >> >> In slovenian team we get about 80% of 3rd party bug reports (from >> people who are not member of any translation team) in the period of 2 >> weeks, between the release of RC and 1 week after final release. This >> is the time when most users upgrade and hence also report bugs. >> A bit more conservative users wait a week or two before upgrade. >> In 10.04 we got a lot bug reports (there were a lot of mistakes in one >> of the packages, due to one translator's unseriousness), and we >> quickly fixed them, but language packs weren't generated for 3 months >> - until the release of 10.4.1 so: >> >> >> a) The people who reported bugs were frustrated, as nothing has >> changed (they couldn't see any changes) >> b) People who installed ubuntu later were still exposed to these >> mistakes. >> >> >> Hence i propose that there is a language pack update 1-2 weeks after >> the final release. Is that possible? >> > > This is a good point, and I think it would be possible. In this regard, > we've been talking about a schedule for translation updates several > times at UDSs, but so far no initiative has taken traction, mostly for > lack of time and other priorities getting in the way. > > This is something we definitely need to sort out, and I'd finally like > to make it a policy, so I'd very much welcome any feedback on this > thread. > > Things to consider for a schedule: > > * How many releases' translations we want to update? > * How often do we want to update each release (current stable, old, > LTSs)? > * How many teams would be testing the updates? > * Where could we host a public calendar for the updates? > > We could also discuss this on a meeting. We haven't been running any on > this cycle yet, so I'm thinking of scheduling one for next week or the > one after. > > I'd be happy to hear everoyne's proposals. > > Thanks! > > Regards, > David.
We had the same issue as Andrej - after the release, multiple errors were spotted in a short amount of time, a few of which were really annoying. A language pack upgrade after 2-3 weeks would be ideal, and I also think that 'automatic' (from our point of view :)) upgrades every so often (1-2 months) would be a good thing if possible. Is there any particular reason not to provide lots of updates to language packs? (Can things easily go wrong?) Regards Ask -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
