On 2014-05-30 14:26, Michael Bauer wrote: > On 2014-05-29 20:50, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: >> 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. > > 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'm not sure about "ridiculously", but the test steps, that the translating teams are asked to carry out, seem pretty easy to me. > 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. Probably you are right, and probably it's about priorities. Can you (or somebody else who reads this) file a wishlist bug? -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
