Only ship translations which accomplish a certain level of completion

[Daniel Holbach]

We should only ship translations which accomplish a certain level of completion. There was code for this in the ubuntu-docs package at some stage.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/hardy/ubuntu-docs/hardy/view/head:/debian/rules still has it

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UPDATE: I had a conversation with David Planella and we came up with the following
idea:
 - we change translation settings in LP to auto-commit translations (done)
 - we get the Packaging Guide into the archive
 - we write a script using python-polib, which checks which translations are
   sufficiently complete and for them add binary package stanzas to debian/control
   and corresponding packaging bits. we will then run the script every now and
   then and get more complete translations into Ubuntu this way (this is what
   this bug should be about)
 - we mail ubuntu-docs and ubuntu-translators mailing lists and blog about the
   effort to translate our docs
 - we update and push the .pot file manually every now and then (make gettext)

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Important for shipping it.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I suggest working around this for now, so we can get it into the archive soon: lp:~dholbach/ubuntu-packaging-guide/workaround-961936

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This should not be a blocker for Ubuntu inclusion any more, so I'll remove the tag. Still it's of high importance.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I won't have time in the next few days to work on this, but it's almost done. So if anybody wants to grab the branch I worked on and continue the work in there, feel free to do so. :-)

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

So, I added creation of the .doc and .doc-base files in my branch. I'm going to try to finish this up tomorrow.

I guess the question I have about the final bits is how do we imagine actually using it? Something that we run manually periodically, as some a bzr-builddeb pre-build hook at source package build time, or during the binary package build? I'll have to think about that a bit...

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fantastic work. I just took the liberty to set the PERCENTAGE back to 70 and fix a few indentations issues.

Regarding your question: I think it should be enough to run the script every now and then when we do an actual upload to Ubuntu. I expect this only to happen a couple of times each cycle, and I don't expect (but obviously hope to be proven wrong) huge changes in the level of completeness of translations between the uploads we do. :)