Hi Kirill,
perhaps you should propose this on the dev or installation.dev mailing
list. This looks like some serios changes to the installer were
necessary to make your idea work, and on these lists you might better
find the people who can make this happen.
Regards,
Jörg
Kirill S. Palagin schrieb:
(Maybe naïve, but may I suggest somewhat radical change in the way l10n builds
are provided?)
I suggest that installer should allow additional language selection during installation.
Installer should look for a folder named "lngpacks" and allow language
selection in accordance with langpack, that are available in that folder. Or installer
could go online, allow to select available langpacks and download them automagically.
This will require only English installer (or maybe 2-3 most popular ones) and
reduce disk space, bandwidth and build requirements drastically, while increase
in complexity for the user will be marginal (user would need to download two
files instead of one).
What do people think about this?
WBR,
K. Palagin.
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Subject: [l10n-dev] L10n Builds: full sets vs. language packs
- proposal
Dear All,
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% completed
3- 1 official build approval must have been submitted to the
QATrack tool during the last 3 releases
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.
For all the ones who are interested to know how we will count
the 80% rate, Jörg has kindly provided the following information:
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to determine the translation percentage in the "Translation
Statistics 2", we collect all translated strings for a given
language, count the words in the English source strings for
these translated strings, and then compare the total number
of translated words to the total number for en-US. For
determining what a "word" is, we use a similar algorithm as
the Unix "wc" utility which defines white spaces as a
separators between words.
The current "Translation Statistics 2" cannot be used
directly to generate the numbers for OOo, as we e.g. have
projects as instset_native and instset_ooo inside the
database, but do not differentiate between an internal
statistics and one for OOo. Frank is going to enable an easy
way for generating the data for the OOo-Wiki statistics page
within the next weeks.
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Please me know if you support the above proposal by the end
of this week.
Kind Regards,
Rafaella
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