Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-20 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, localized builds need to be tested. eg. following errors can happen: - faulty translations can damage eg. configuration data - damaged resources can crash the application Has someone an idea what really can happen that makes localized build so dangerous? Is this something specific for RTL

[l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread Ain Vagula
Followup to 'new home for downloads' thing. Anyways when we take a look at list of approved and released packages and rc-list and list with language packs only then it seems to me that minority of teams are taking part in testing process at moment. Maybe it could help, when these teams who have

Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread Martin Srebotnjak
Ain, I voiced my opinion some weeks ago in a similar way, but was told there was once a language version that wouldn't run or install (I do not remember, was it Polish or French), so the only reason for QA voiced so far was that the localized build was horribly faulty, which means that it just

Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread Harri Pitkänen
On Thursday 19 November 2009 19:20:21 Ain Vagula wrote: Has someone an idea what really can happen that makes localized build so dangerous? There have been two bugs in Finnish translation that have caused corruption upon saving documents. Both were caused by accidentally giving two different

Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread Martin Srebotnjak
OK, great to know, thank, Harri. That kind of check be made a part of a more intelligent gsicheck, I guess. Lp, m. 2009/11/19 Harri Pitkänen hatap...@iki.fi On Thursday 19 November 2009 19:20:21 Ain Vagula wrote: Has someone an idea what really can happen that makes localized build so

Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread Ain Vagula
I dont believe such issues come up during simple qa tests. Ok, as I so or so work every day 4 or more hours with oo.o development and rc builds on Windows and Linux and can be sure that these builds install, run, and what a surprise, even can open and save the documents, I can just get an qa

Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread Martin Srebotnjak
I guess a lot of lang teams should do this, we are thinking about it as well. I am regularly testing OOo on OSX as I am using all regular Pavel's builds, and he uses the latest sdf file at our ftp server, so I can guarantee for Slovenian OSX version ... Lp, m. 2009/11/19 Ain Vagula

Re: [l10n-dev] Localized releases

2009-11-19 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Ain Vagula schrieb: I dont believe such issues come up during simple qa tests. Ok, as I so or so work every day 4 or more hours with oo.o development and rc builds on Windows and Linux and can be sure that these builds install, run, and what a surprise, even can open and save the documents,