Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 documentation updates have not been done

[Timo Jyrinki]

We have not yet updated the translations of the ubuntu-docs package in the stable release. Doing so is important because the translators put in plenty of hard work after the release is done and to improve the quality of the localisation of the Help Center. Software localisations are updated regularly through the language-packs, we should also update localisation of documentation.

Impact of the update on users should be minimal: all translations are tested to ensure the docbook xml validates and any errors are fixed.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Thanks for your bug. I'll work on this.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Currently working on importing and validating gutsy translations.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Translations updated and validated in the gutsy branch, package built and tested. I'll prepare a debdiff.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Starting the SRU process. ubuntu-sru subscribed.

Debdiff is http://doc.ubuntu.com/~mdke/ubuntu-docs.debdiff

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Description updated.

I will also need a sponsor to upload the package, which can be got from https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-doc/gutsy

Can the SRU team please advise if this upload needs to go into -proposed? If so I will amend the changelog.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Anticipating the answer to my question above, I've amended the changelog entry to refer to gutsy-proposed. Please let me know if everything is ok!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The attached debdiff is quite broken (DOS line endings, and fromdos does not appear to fix it). For sponsoring, what do I need to do to get the uploadable source package? just check out the branch and debuild -S?

Right, the package needs to go through -proposed first. Updating the documentation is appropriate for SRU.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Yes, "bzr checkout lp:ubuntu-doc/gutsy" then debuild should do the trick.

I'm subscribing ubuntu-main-sponsors too.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Taking for sponsoring.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sponsored and accepted into gutsy-proposed. Please collect some testing feedback for various languages for verification.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

ubuntu-docs 7.10.5 on gutsy seems to be very good in Finnish (fi). I went quickly through all the chapters, and happily noticed all the improvements made after gutsy's release / freeze.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

I've tested it with Italian, Chinese, German and English and all seems to be in good shape.

I've tested that the translations appear using the command "LANG=xx yelp". I've also done a "sudo scrollkeeper-rebbuilddb" to check for any validity errors, none appear.

Given that I don't think this update can really depend on different hardware or configurations, I'll assume this is suitable testing and am substituting the verification-needed tag with verification-done. please let me know if more testing is required.

[Alexey Balmashnov (a.balmashnov)]

Tested it in Russian. Looks better then in used to be. The only thing which puzzled me is the completely untranslated "Assistive Tools" section (intenal link: file:///usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/C/gnome-access-guide.xml) and I was not able to find a corresponding template for translations in https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/ubuntu-docs/

[Mads Peter Rommedahl (lhademmor)]

Tested in Danish - though the Danish Translators Team (mainly me) have only translated two sections of the docs, they look nice.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Alexey,

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Alexey Balmashnov
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Tested it in Russian. Looks better then in used to be.

Thanks. I think this fix has now been sufficiently tested and proved valid.

> The only thing
> which puzzled me is the completely untranslated "Assistive Tools"
> section

That's not related to this bug. See this post for an explanation:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2007-October/001333.html

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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Matthew East [2008-03-06 14:33 -0000]:
> Thanks. I think this fix has now been sufficiently tested and proved
> valid.

I agree, thanks to everyone. I'll move it to updates after the 7 day
maturing period is over.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Martin, has this been done yet?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to gutsy-updates.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Marking as fix released - we won't fix this in Feisty I think, as it is already nearly a year old.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I agree. Let's just have better updates from now on, and it was great to have the gutsy update done. Thank you.