LocalizedImagesRollout

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The idea of this page is to act as a place for brainstorming on aspects related to how we do the testing and rollout of the new localized ISO images, as drafted on the desktop-o-cd-localization spec.

Contact persons for initial tests

We would like to test the initial prototypes for a set of languages, and thus we would like to have a contact person or owner for each of these languages, with the idea of adding them to the ../ReleaseImageContacts page or to create a dedicated page for localized ISO testing.

Please add yourself to the list if you'd like to contribute to your language's ISO. Thanks a lot for your help!

Language

Contact person

Catalan

David Planella

Chinese (Traditional)

Cheng-Chia Tseng

Danish

Anders Jenbo

French

Didier Roche

Italian

Milo Casagrande

Slovenian

Andrej Znidarsic

Dutch

Redmar

Romanian

Stas Suscov

Uyghur

Gheyret Kenji

FAQ

(Note: This Q/A is still incomplete, feel free to add your questions here and we'll answer them as well as we can)

Ubuntu Which aspects of the images can be localized?

(i) As of the current state of the spec, the following areas can be localized:

  • Firefox bookmarks
  • Firefox start page
  • Unity launchers
  • Defaut applications file association
  • Rhythmbox/Banshee radio stations
  • Language pack
  • Installation of additional packages
  • Background image
  • Keyboard layout

Ubuntu What is the workflow for creating a localized image?

(i) Right now we've just started to write documentation how to build localized images, which will be shortly available in a wiki page.

In the meantime, documentation can be found in the build scripts' man pages, but roughly, here is a high-level overview of the workflow to create a localized image:

  1. Create a defaults package with all the customizations for your language and upload it to a PPA. Use the ubuntu-defaults-template scripts for that.

  2. Run the build script (ubuntu-defaults-image in the ubuntu-defaults-builder package) to create the image.

  3. Upload the image on a public location for everyone to download and test

Ubuntu Will these images be considered as official Ubuntu images, or rather as a remix?

(i) TBD

Ubuntu Where will these images be published?

(i) At least for the first iteration, we're relying on LoCo and translation teams to use the standard toolset we're providing to create and host their own images. That does not mean that in the future, and given enough testing, we could not publish the images on e.g. cdimages.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Are there going to be any changes in the main ISO?

(i) The only change will be that we no longer will be shipping language packs in the main ISO, as we're now providing standard tools to create localized images. This change will only affect the few languages that were previously included in the main ISO, which will now have to create their own localized versions. For the majority of languages, there will be no change, other than now having a much easier way to roll out localized versions.

There will be no changes with regards to translations in the installer. The installer will remain localized in the main ISO and when an Internet connection is present, install the language packs for the chosen locale as usual.

Ubuntu Will the images need to be tested on each milestone during the development cycle?

(i) TBD

Ubuntu How will the testing of the localized images be done?

(i) TBD