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Now grows together what belongs together. Introducing a cool new feature: importing translation templates from Bazaar branches. You can (and should) host your source code on code.launchpad.net using Bazaar branches. You also have a great translation tool in …
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I’m in Buenos Aires this week with the Launchpad Translations team — Danilo, Jeroen and Henning — along with Launchpad UI guy Martin Albisetti. We’re working on making Launchpad cleverer at giving people the information they need where they need it. Each day …
A few days ago a fix for bug #286359 landed: provide translation import notifications to Ubuntu packagers. This means that all packagers will start getting emails about translation files (basically, *.pot and *.po files) from their packages as soon as they are imported (or the …
Due to some caching problems between our machines, some large translations have failed to import, generating strange errors such as: “String not terminated” (the most common one, at a big line number) “Got a truncated message!” “String is not …
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The week of February 2nd – 6th has been the inaugural Launchpad Performance Week: a week where we concentrate on the most pressing performance issues and do anything we can to improve them. During that week, we also establish a hard goal that we enforce by lowering the timeout …
Finding the right balance between open access and quality control is an ongoing challenge both for translations groups and the Launchpad Translations developers. Launchpad already gives projects the flexibility to choose what level of openness versus control that they want for …
Providing translation work back upstream is now greatly simplified! There is a lot of translation work going on in Launchpad, for Ubuntu as well as for other projects. There is also a lot of translation work going on for the projects, that is not done in Launchpad. This is …
If you translate using Launchpad, you’ll almost certainly be delighted to read that you can now search for translations! Take a look at the English (UK) translations for Wordpress. There are two search boxes. One at the very top-right of the page: that’s …
The next Ubuntu release - Hardy Heron - is now open for translation! If you want to help ensure it’s accurately translated into your language, you can get going at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+translations If you’re new to translating Ubuntu and …
Translating using Launchpad is now faster and you’ll see next to no timeouts. Over the past month, Launchpad’s Translations developers - Carlos, Danilo and Jeroen - have worked exclusively on simplifying the database and code used by Launchpad Translations. Danilo …