Adding Gaelic (gd) to builds

[Akerbeltz]

Based on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1252253
and
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/239233
I'm filing a bug, not a question.

We're making good progress with the Gaelic localization of Chromium (https://translations.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/translations/+lang/gd) and because I assume this will be a fairly drawn out process, I would like to get the ball rolling now for getting it added to builds for Ubuntu.

[Akerbeltz (fios)]

Chad, just a headsup, I have finished all the translations for all translatable files (though the importer hasn't imported them all yet).
Let me know if there's anything you need from me.
Cheers

[Chad Miller (cmiller)]

That is incredible work. Thank you, Akerbeltz.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Akerbeltz <email address hidden> wrote:

> Chad, just a headsup, I have finished all the translations for all
> translatable files (though the importer hasn't imported them all yet).
> Let me know if there's anything you need from me.
> Cheers
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1376217
>
> Title:
> Adding Gaelic (gd) to builds
>
> Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Based on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1252253
> and
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/239233
> I'm filing a bug, not a question.
>
> We're making good progress with the Gaelic localization of Chromium
> (https://translations.launchpad.net/chromium-
> browser/translations/+lang/gd) and because I assume this will be a
> fairly drawn out process, I would like to get the ball rolling now for
> getting it added to builds for Ubuntu.
>
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[Akerbeltz (fios)]

Guys, I don't mean to be a nag but it's been 3 months and I still haven't heard a thing about what's happening with this. Could anyone please enlighten me?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Chromium is not accepting translations from the community any longer, unfortunately.
And it doesn't appear they have translations for Gaelic, either. Their documentation wrt translations doesn't seem to be up-to-date, so I don't know if/how your work could be submitted to the chromium project directly, if you're still interested. Sorry that this didn't get processed timely.

[Akerbeltz (fios)]

Yes I gathered that while the label on Chrome/Chromium say OpenSource, that's only a veneer.

The thing I find most upsetting about this is that Canonical keeps all these closed/outdated projects on Launchpad (even ignoring the lack of committing work done on Launchpad to upstream projects). There must be many thousands of work hours wasted because people see "oh I can translate X here" and then it turns out that X is no longer active upstream or that the translations aren't being committed etc etc etc. Canonical really must do a big clear-out of such projects.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Agreed, that should have been communicated much earlier. I sympathize with your frustration.
This policy change for chromium is now correctly reflected at https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser.