Hello! On behalf of Ubuntu translations coordinators team I have very good news to share with you. :) Thanks to the hard work of Launchpad developers translations of universe packages are coming to Launchpad.
Universe, as you might know, is one of the four repositories that make up Ubuntu (Main, Multiverse, Restricted and Universe). Until now only translations of packages in Main repository have been available under translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/. For Universe packages this means translations that are packaged for current Ubuntu version are used. To give an example: If geany 0.18 is packaged in the universe for Ubuntu 11.10, translations in that package will be used even if better translations are available in the current version 0.20 (in this case the newest version is packaged for Ubuntu 11.10 but that is not always the case). Furthermore, for Universe packages translations are not taken into account until a new version of the program is packaged and released (translations are not a part of language packs). This has caused a significant delay in avabilabilty of newest translations in the past and also made translation more difficult as packages needed to be translated upstream, which caused: a) lower visibility of translations (one needed to go to upstream project page to be available to translate) b) in many cases the translations workflow is significantly different and more technically challenging, which scares away less technical problems. These problems are soon going to be a thing of the past. Of course this functionality needs to be tested first so we are asking which Universe packages are in your opinion important enough to be included in testing phase. Initially we want to try this feature on about 5 packages. I am nominating wine and compizconfig settings manager as I believe both are highly visible to average user and are technically challenging to translate upstream. Please name your suggestions. After the feature is thoroughly tested and all bugs are ironed out it will be available for many more packages (but not all as we don't want to crowd translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu with 30 000 new packages or so;). Regards Andrej -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
