Whoops, forgot to copy the translators in - please reply to this email rather than my previous one. Apologies!
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Matthew East <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dean, > > I'm copying in ubuntu-translators and Jono for their respective input > on the various points below. > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Dean Sas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Matthew East wrote: >>> As usual right after string freeze our translators and other >>> eagle-eyed bug reporters have picked up some errors in the >>> documentation. >> >> Is there anything we can do to encourage people to look at the docs >> earlier? > > It's a good question. Here are some ideas but people should feel free > to add others. > > 1. Since it's the translators who often pick up these items, we should > encourage translators to start working on the docs well before the > string freeze. The reality is that most of the work they need to do > can be started earlier without the work being wasted. And as you say, > the package is uploaded relatively regularly so the translations are > normally up to date. Do translators think this is realistic? > > 2. We could set up an automatic ppa upload with a package that is > always up to date. I don't know how to do this but I've seen that some > other teams have done so. That would need to be coupled with > invitations to testers... > > 3. For ubuntu-docs contributors, we should document how to set up a > virtualbox with the development version so that people can test > earlier. This page is ok, although a bit heavy on screenshots - > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/FirstVM. There is a good > guide here - > http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/07/29/running-karmic-in-a-virtual-machine/ > - but it is copyrighted. Jono, can we have your permission to take > that article and put it in the help wiki under a cc-by-sa licence? > > 4. We could get the regular testing community involved in testing the > docs so that testing documentation is a part of the regular testing > regime - http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/ > >> I think perhaps we should have made more noise on the planets a month or >> so ago to ask people to review the documents as it is getting close to >> string freeze. > > Agreed. > >> Milo mentioned that he looked at the docs as part of the Global Jam. Is >> there a reason why the Jam is held when it is - after the archive is >> frozen/slushy and before the ubuntu+1 archive is open? > > No idea! Jono? > > -- > Matthew East > http://www.mdke.org > gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF > -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
