Ubuntu Wiki

This is the home of the Ubuntu translations knowledgebase, where you'll find all information around translating Ubuntu.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions about translating Ubuntu and using Launchpad for translations

• Ubuntu Translations FAQ

• Launchpad Translations FAQ — Launchpad Translations is the collaborative online tool we use to translate Ubuntu

• Old Ubuntu Translations FAQ — deprecated, but left here for reference purposes. The content should be moved to the Ubuntu Translations FAQ

Guidelines

Set of recommended guidelines and best practices, aimed at translation team coordinators, but also interesting for all translators.

• Team communication

• Assessing new team members in moderated teams

• Quality assurance and working with upstreams

• Migration from Open to Moderated translation teams

Policies

Set of policies governing the teams in the Ubuntu Translators translation group. The translation of Ubuntu is only possible for the teams in this group.

General

• The Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team

• Starting a new Ubuntu translation team

• Adding a new language to Ubuntu

• Translations precedence policy

Ubuntu Translation teams

• Translation team in Launchpad

• Translation guidelines

• Team coordinator responsibilities

• Team coordinator role reassignment

General documentation

• Translations lifecycle

• Language packs

• Templates priority and lists of Ubuntu specific packages

• Translation milestones

• How to export translations for offline translation, testing or sending to upstream

• Prepare a translation for sending upstream

QA

• Language pack testing

• Language Pack PPA - weekly update. Please use this PPA for testing translations.

• How to report translation bugs

• How to handle translations bugs - triage and resolution

Special translations

These are translations that do not follow the usual translation lifecycle.

• LibreOffice: Translation happens entirely in upstream, please follow their instructions

• Firefox: Translation happens entirely in upstream, please follow their instructions

• Ubufox

• Browser start page

• Offline browser start page

• K/Ubuntu documentation — Note: add a description to the "Assistive Tools" string translation

• Long package descriptions

• Ubuntu Installer

• Installer timezones

• packages.ubuntu.com

• ISO codes: Please translate upstream, we will only sync from Debian and won't use the translations from Launchpad directly.

• Release Notes

• WUBI

• Wanted — translations needed, but not doable in Launchpad

• Command Line Interface packages useful for disabling translations for RTL languages

• CUPS: Please translate upstream, we will only sync from there and won't use the translations from Launchpad directly.

• apt: please coordinate the translation with Debian upstream

• dpkg: please coordinate the translation with Debian upstream

• e2fsprogs: please coordinate the translation with the Translation Project upstream

Utilities and translation helping tools

• Nightmonkey - Helps you translate package description

• Karmic Translations Report - a better view over translation templates (search, see upstream and sort over all templates)

• Ubuntu Translations Tools various script to help you with translation related task (ex. search string in local installed translations)

Developer documentation

This documentation should assist developers in preparing their Ubuntu applications and packages for translation

• Internationalization Guide for Developers

General resources

• Language Pack Source archive for Karmic

• Brainstorming section

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