Re: [l10n-tools] The localization process will be changed into a continuous process soon

On 09/12/2010 14:51, Ivo Hinkelmann wrote:
>
> I am happy to announce that soon the localization process will be 
> changed into a continuous process which will allow to provide l10n 
> turnarounds cycles at every milestone. This process was presented at 
> the OooConf In Budapest: 
> http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/207 and is the 
> outcome of Gregor, Rafaella and myself working on the so called 
> "continuous l10n" project.

This is great news :)

> Here below the major steps of this workflow:
> *it creates a cws named l10n<workstamp><milestone> , e.g. l10ndev300m94
> *it downloads all l10n from pootle
> *it downloads  all sdf found on 
> ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/l10n/upload/ (no more sdf 
> delivery via Issue. Translated sdf files can be uploaded to this ftp)
> *it gsichecks and merges the translated sdf files. Precondition is 
> that language is known and is set up in the resource system.
Are you applying any of the po2oo checks?  These catch a few critical 
errors that would ensure that broken translations are dropped, gsicheck 
passes and at least a local lang build is made.
> *it builds languagepacks for all languages that have been changed 
> (even when only 1 string has been changed) + one en-US insetsets
> *it removes automatically languages from the build which cause a build 
> error not covered by the gsicheck, this allowing the other languages 
> to be built.
> *it uploads the *_err.sdf from gsicheck
I wonder if its possible to use these *_err.sdf reports to report errors 
to Pootle users for fixing?  That way any translator could step through 
the GSI failure in Pootle and make corrections.
> *it uploads windows and linux32 languagepacks and the en-US insetsets 
> to ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/l10n/download/
>
> Please help us testing this new process! How?
> *Check the language packs created by this process
> *Non-Pootle users should upload translated sdf files to 
> ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/l10n/upload
>
> For a later stage we are planning to
> * commit the l10n
> * integrate every cws
> We are working already on a technical solution that will not blow up 
> the main repository. We will not integrate those cws till we solve 
> this issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Ivo
>
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