But Fòram still raises a valid point. A lot of the smaller locales rely
on a small number of contributors and in many cases, these are primarily
translators with little in the way of developer skills. Requiring
testing that is not set up to be *ridiculously easy* before a langpack
is released will raise the technical bar for these languages SO high
that they'll drop off pretty fast.
I understand the need for ensuring that langpacks don't crash but surely
there must be a simple way of checking for strings which might cause
this automatically? I have no idea what CAN cause a langpack to crash
Ubuntu but I imagine it's missing placeholders or code that has been
inadvertently introduced. Surely this can be run as an automatic check
and if not, the surely Canonical could just set up a machine to
auto-test all langpacks and if any of them crash, to flag it to the
locale team in question.
Michael
30/05/2014 13:00, sgrìobh [email protected]:
Well, irrespective of the size of the language, you need to have Ubuntu
14.04 installed, of course, to be able to test. As regards Kubuntu, it's
not obvious that it's motivated any longer to test that distribution
separately. We'll take it into consideration.
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