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We would like to share an update regarding our plans for the Blueprints and Translations features in Launchpad. Retiring Launchpad Blueprints Launchpad Blueprints are lightweight feature specifications attached to projects and distributions. As the usage of Blueprints has …
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Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-29, to allow us to open the translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS). We tried this last week but hit some problems. Rather than prolong the …
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Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-22. During this time Launchpad will not be importing translation files and the web interface for making and reviewing translations will be unavailable. This includes imports for …
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Continuing on from our earlier work of sending less but better mail and making it faster to import i18n translation templates: Launchpad will no longer send mail when it successfully imports a template. You can see in the web ui when the template was last imported, and you will …
If you use Launchpad’s Translations feature, then as of today, you may notice a new kind of error for uploads in your translations import queue. Look for the “” icon next to your upload’s status, and click to unfold. The error message says …
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Good news if you run a project’s translation effort in Launchpad! Until today, when you imported a template or translation file into Launchpad for the first time, you’d have to wait for a member of the Canonical Launchpad team to review and then approve that file …
It’s incredible to think that more than 57,000 people have used Launchpad to translate software from English into their own language. Many of them have worked directly on upstream projects, such as the OpenShot video editor. Others have helped translate Ubuntu packages of …
Last year, we integrated Launchpad Translations with Launchpad’s code hosting, meaning you could import both translations and templates from a Bazaar branch and also export translations to a branch. Even at the time, we knew that the story wasn’t complete: you still …
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The last few months we’ve been doing a lot of work to enable direct import of translations from different upstream VCS systems. For now, we’ve focused on getting one very important case right first (GNOME), and then we’ll extend it to supporting other upstreams …
You may already know this: if you want to try out Launchpad, there’s a “playground” version of the site at https://staging.launchpad.net/ This site gets refreshed daily (or almost daily) with the latest copy of the database that’s behind the real, …