Ubuntu doc imports spec

[Matthew east]

Am cc:ing Carlos

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:59 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> For people interested in translation workflow:
> http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDocImports
> 
> Is anyone already familiar with this spec? The launchpad wiki is
> passworded.

I have no clue if anything has been discussed at UDU for this process:
the current system is that described on
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocteamStepByStepl18n

Essentially what happens is that any .pot files in uploaded packages are
imported into the relevant section of launchpad (at the moment only
hoary exists). This is automated.

We had some problems with the imported documents (2 copies of our docs
appeared), which Carlos fixed manually. I believe there are also some
problems with importing: Rosetta will only import .pot files if there is
no more than one in a directory, so for example our common/ stuff didn't
get imported.

Otherwise, I'm not away of any issues re: importing.

Re: exporting:

A script (helpfully provided by one of the Rosetta users, and slightly
modified) can be used to check on the status of translations in Rosetta
and download em if finished (so far no new copies of anything are
available). Its in teamstuff/. We then download em by hand and commit
them to the relevant tree in our repository.

There is some suggestion that the documents might be incorporated into
language-packs, so far the guy who deals mostly with these has said that
it may be difficult, but this should probably be the ultimate aim. In
this case, there may be a way to automate the process of exporting and
packaging. We'll have to see.

Hope this helps, but in general that wiki page is the main reference.
Lemme know if it is unclear.

Matt