Hi everyone :)Rafaella, thankyou for this positive suggestion, in response to the situation of languages like mine.
On 20/12/2006, at 1:20 AM, Rafaella Braconi wrote:
currently not all languages released by Sun are available as full installations sets. This is due to resource constraints, storage, backup capacity and such stuff. Although we are going to ramp up our hardware to enable more installation sets in the future, we cannot increase the number of languages with full installation sets in the short term.What we would therefore like to propose here is a set of criteria which can equally be met by ALL languages (both Sun and non-Sun languages) which would keep the number of full installation sets more or less stable in the short term and would allow reasonable growth. Languages which meet the following conditions could be built with full installation sets:1- the GUI translation must be at least 80% completed 2- the Online translation must be at least 80% completed3- 1 official build approval must have been submitted to the QATrack tool during the last 3 releases
What is "the online translation"?We have the GUI translation complete, but we haven't completed helpcontents2 yet: at nearly half a million words, it's not a reasonable expectation for a first QA'd release.
SO I hope "the online translation" isn't helpcontents2. ;)
For all the languages which meet all the 3 above criteria Sun will provide official full installation sets. New languages which provide 1 and 2 for the first time and ask explicitly for full installation sets will get full installation sets. However, if after 3 releases no QA approval is recorded in the QAtrack tool, Sun will provide language packs only, if the translation status still remains at 80% translation. If the translation status is less than 80% Sun will stop providing the builds for that language.
It makes good sense. As long as it doesn't require all projects to have helpcontents2 at 80%, it's a set of criteria a small but enthusiastic project like VI could meet.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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