Re: OpenOffice.org 3.3 - PLS approve and request language versions

Hi Martin,

for me it isn't a problem, when a L10N team decide to do not the next
release. In the new concept they have to talk about this request. Is
it a problem for you?

But in my understanding their isn't a reason to do not release a
version, where a lot of work for translation and QA for this translation
is done. Why not release that version and wait for feedback. Perhaps
the users do not have such a problem with the quality which the L10N
team prioritize as a stopper. Without a released version you will not
get any feedback about that version. Because to find/download a RC is
much more complex as to find/download a stable/released version.

But it should be still possible to decide that a version of OOo will
not released for a special language.

Thorsten


Am 18.02.2011 10:16, schrieb Martin Srebotnjak:
> Hi *,
>
> I have a small problem with the concept of automatic testing and approving
> as well. The automatic testing after the time for manual testing has passed
> presumes that all L10N teams want to release their language version.
>
> However there could be a situation where the localization would be subpar
> for the lang team translation quality criteria to release - but in your
> scenario the team loses the possibility to stop the release in their
> language (in the old system the lang team simply did not start testing the
> release).
>
> So the change is this: instead of
> you test and release all builds you can
> you are proposing
> we will test and release all if you do not have resources or time
>
> Of course the benefit to OOo is that it is released in many more languages.
> But what good are these numbers if the localizations are not tested by
> native speakers?
>
> The automatic testing doesn't seem to go well with languages that do not
> have tests localized - will now even languages without localized tests be
> released as QAed?
>
> I know many of these thoughts are speculations on my part, but I just want
> to open discussion about questions that really matter
> translation-quality-wise - the testing of which cannot be left to the
> Hamburg team or computers - as they do not understand/speak ... Slovenian :)
>
> Lp, m.
>