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These are the notes from an impromptu BOF by the LoCo teams present at UDS MTV.

Problem: How do we leverage LoCos for localization of documentation, websites, etc? (what are the other problems dealing with language)

Challenges: How to change the input method (wiki, webpage, etc) so that the text can be easily translated and redeployed in various languages

Ideas to implement:

• locoteams bug reporting in native language
  • triaging the grave native language bugs to/from EN
    • creating a "localized" form where users could report bugs?
    • multilingualise malone is the more natural way to do
• translating most of the locoteam pages to other languages:

  • ex: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/

      • Use Case: People from a non english speaking nation want to start their own loco team?
  • Converting documentation into local language
    • Rosetta translations

    • wikis and websites e.g. http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/

    • what about sync?
• Launchpad integration
  • leverage Rosetta?
  • leverage Malone?
  • utilize bazaar to control loco docs?
    • if so, how would we automate the checkout/publish method?
      • create a project for each loco team, so their team can collaborate via bazaar, and then they can publish to wiki if need be, or via a cron to their http server
  • ..etc..

A possible way to deal with bugs reported in local language

• Example: Chinese user wants to report a bug.
  • "Are you bilingual? Then please report in EN."
  • meets Chinese launchpad interface
  • enters his bug in Chinese
  • bilingual Chinese/English person receives ticket
    • can this be solved by refering the reporter to a document(wiki)? is it really a bug? (bug triage)
  • bilingual Chinese/English person translates bug
  • bug gets integrated into Launchpad bug database
  • developer answers
  • answer gets translated to Chinese
    • process gets repeated until issue is (hopefully) resolved
  • ? how to feed back to the user in Chinese? same procedure
  • do we want to do this for all kinds of use cases? or only for localisation bound problems?
  • complexity probably only worth the effort for problems directly related to the language:
    • translations, utf8, bidirectional printing, ...
    • how to eliminate the clearly non-language related stuff?
      • the translator
      • the user himself should have a clear idea of what kind of problems he can report in his local language

• For https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamsUDSMVSpecs/CommunityBugReporting:

  • Documentation should consider localization
• question: can automatic translating be of any use

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