Hello Pierre, the session was moved from yesterday, to a slot today where I was already booked, so let's try to handle this via email (or schedule a hangout next week).
Pierre Slamich [2013-05-13 16:36 +0200]: > 5. For the Language Pack, it's exactly the input that I was looking for. > Although he will probably not be able to implement it, I'd be grateful if > Martin could give us pointers (30 to 60 min) of what we need to do for > fully automating the full rebuild and enabling tests. The building of langpack updates is already mostly automated: for the development release they are automatically uploaded straight into Ubuntu twice a week, and for the most recent stables the packages land in https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/+archive/ppa, from where they are (supposed to be) copied to stable-proposed for each testing round; that hasn't actually happened for a while, though. The only thing that I do manually is a full -base rebuild, as that needs to be coordinated with Launchpad. All the scripts and cron jobs to build langpacks are in lp:langpack-o-matic, and this is the user documentation: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/langpack-o-matic/main/view/head:/doc/operator-guide.txt In terms of testing, that currently happens manually. We expect testers to install the latest packages, then reboot, verify that the desktop still starts and looks "correct", and that you can run some critical pieces of software which would allow us to supply another update with a fix. In particular, update-manager, update-notifier, and software-center. This can be automated with autopilot up to some degree, but that hasn't happened so far. Did you have something specific in mind for "fully automating the full rebuild and enabling tests"? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
