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Introduction

The purpose of this page is to list all suggestions for the UDS Lucid translation sessions to be used as a basis for the final schedule.

Session proposals

Final list

Blueprints

• Status and feedback about the Ubuntu Translations project (AdiRoiban)

  • bugs handling
  • answer tracking
  • process documentation for translators and developers

• Translating Ubuntu Docs, help files, training materials ... etc (AdiRoiban)

  • Cross session with the documentation team to discuss topics such as:
    • Feedback regarding the current ubuntu-docs translation process
    • Status of Kubuntu and Xubuntu docs
    • See how we can translate help files and other docs and training materials
    • Naming of translation templates for translation on Launchpad

  • doctemplate (KyleNitzsche)

    • A new/developing LP project (lp.net/doctemplate) that provides a documentation template that can be added to packages or used for stand alone docs. Source is docbook article or book. It's fully localizable (images and strings), with pdf, html, html-with-javascript and docbook outputs. Also, discuss integration with LP: translation work flow, and possible LP improvements: Documentation tab, Doc privileges and assignment (like translations), import/export to/from LP, LP for image localization, LP display of localized content

• start.ubuntu.com and the links from there (TimoJyrinki)

  • mailing list post - in summary, l10n of Participate page and "l10n" of the Help link URL (if deemed proper), how to escalat

• Testing for Translations (AraPulido, DavidPlanella)

  • Cross session Translations/QA about test cases for translations. We could come up with a good blueprint for Lucid to add those kind of cases to the ISO tracker.

  • Suggestion: it would be interesting to have some advice from the testing team on:
    • Testing/finding out untranslatable strings
    • Testing language packs on stable releases

• Improving translation status reporting (DavidPlanella)

  • We haven't got a Launchpad Translations API, but for gathering translations statistics, template names, etc, we've got daily updated data here -> http://people.canonical.com/~danilo/ubuntu/. Note: the data is not from the production database, which means that it is a couple of days behind

  • What can we do with that data?
    • Providing stats based on distro
      • How do we report on languages? Kyle suggests a tiered language approach.
    • Provide diferent views of templates, e.g. package sets (with links to LP for the actual translations)
    • Provide a list of old templates as possible candidates for being obsoleted
    • ...

• Community participation in coordinating translations (DavidPlanella)

  • On the last cycle we saw the UbuntuTranslationCoordinators team building up. It has worked very well so far, and it would be interesting to have some feedback.

  • We want to have a well documented and transparent process, in which the community can contribute

  • Some of the actions the UTC is responsible for are already documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTranslationsCoordinators#Actions. These might need to be expanded and perhaps we can also come up with a schedule on when to do the regular actions. Also there are some actions only David and Arne can do right now, should they be expanded to the whole group?

    • Changing translation focus in Launchpad
    • Requesting language pack exports
    • ...

• Kubuntu Translations feedback and improvements (DavidPlanella)

  • Status of Kubuntu translations
  • Feedback on the improvement effort discussed on the last UDS and fleshed out during the Karmic development cycle.
  • Using Launchpad Translations for projects using TS files
  • Look at KDE source packages that have all POT files in the same folder.

• Increasing community developer contributions in Launchpad Translations (DavidPlanella)

  • Launchpad is now Open Source
  • There are lots of feature requests on Launchpad Translations, which the community could participate in or implement themselves
  • We'd like to discuss ways in which we could encourage or ease community developer contributions to Launchpad Translations.

• Translations best practices and policies (DavidPlanella)

  • Currently there is no authoritative set of policies for better structuring the Ubuntu Translations process

  • We should discuss for which aspects of the translations process we'd like to have documented policies, draft those and let the Ubuntu translations community ratify them.

  • It would also be useful to have a collection of best practices for Ubuntu translation teams, including guidelines on how to run a team, how to accept new members, how to communicate within the team, how to interact with upstreams and how to work collaboratively and ensure translation quality.

  • Review of https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/Guide

  • Review and complete https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/#Guidelines, see if there is any content that can be merged

Roundtables

• Launchpad Translations roundtable (Danilo, UrsulaJunque)

  • Roundtable session where the LP Translations devs can expose what's coming in the next cycle and get feedback and answer questions from users
  • Topics from translators:

    • Translation sharing between Ubuntu and upstream projects hosted in LP (AdiRoiban)

      • Now that we have message sharing between ubuntu series, see if we can share those translations between Ubuntu and upstream projects hosted in LP

• Translations Community roundtable (DavidPlanella)

  • Roundtable session to discuss the status of the Ubuntu translations community, possible improvements, etc.

Deferred

• Indentifying the source package/template from UI strings (AdiRoiban)

  • see if we can have in LP a search feature that will look in all templates for a language
  • see how we can identify strings that are not marked for translations

  • Note: we can talk about this on the Launchpad Translations roundtable -- dpm 2009-11-05 12:39:56

• Starting with Translations content (DavidPlanella)

  • The main entry point for new Ubuntu translators is Launchpad and the wiki pages
  • It would be very useful to have more dynamic content, such as tutorials/screencasts, which could also even be translated.

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