Launchpad on David Planella

Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:27:56 +0000

I am pleased to announce that our current development release, Ubuntu Precise, is now open for translation

Some additional information that will be useful for translators:

Translation schedule. Remember that according to the release schedule translatable messages might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze on the week of the 23rd of February.
Language packs. During the development cycle, language packs containing translations will be released twice per week except for the freeze periods. This will allow users and translators to quickly see and test the results of translations.
Test and report bugs. If you notice any issues (e.g. untranslated strings or applications), do check with the translation team for your language first. If you think it is a genuine bug, please report it.
Learn more. Learn how to start translating Ubuntu and enable millions to use it in their language.

Ubuntu 12.04 will be a Long Term Support release, so let’s rally around translations to provide the best translated OS around and go over the mark of nearly 40 languages in which Ubuntu is fully translated!

Goodbye And Thanks For All the Apps: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 5 And Wrap-Up

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:45:58 +0000

Another edition of the Ubuntu App Developer Week and another amazing knowledge sharing fest around everything related to application development in Ubuntu. Brought to you by a range of the best experts in the field, here’s just a sample of the topics they talked about: App Developer Strategy, Bazaar, Bazaar Explorer, Launchpad, Python, Internationalization, Launchpad Translations, Unity, Unity 2D, Gedit Developer Plugins, the MyApps Portal, the App Review Board, the UbuntuSoftware Centre, Unity Mail, Launchpad Daily Builds, Ubuntu One APIs, Rapid App Development, Quickly, GooCanvas, PyGame, Unity Launcher, Vala, the App Developer Site, Indicators, Python Desktop Integration, Libgrip, Multitouch, Unity Lenses, Ubuntu One Files Integration, The Business Side of Apps, Go, Qt Quick… and more. Oh my!

All Good Things Come To An End: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:42:49 +0000

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4 Summary
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Last day of UADW! While we’re watching the final sessions, here’s what happened yesterday:

Creating an App Developer Website: developer.ubuntu.com
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By John Oxton and David Planella

Creating the concept and implementing a site for app developers is no easy task. The Ubuntu App Developer site is meant to be a place for app authors to get started with development, to find the information they need and to be able to publish their apps in the Software Centre. John explained all the research and user testing that happened behind the scenes, highlighting the key findings, while David focused on the purpose of the site, where it fits in the overall developer strategy for Ubuntu and the plans for the future.

Knowing Your Destination Is Half The Journey: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:33:57 +0000

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3 Summary
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Time flies and we’re already halfway through UADW, but there is still much to come! Here’s yesterday report for your reading pleasure:

Unity Mail: Webmail Notification on Your Desktop
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By Dmitry Shachnev

Starting off with a description of the features of Unity Mail, such as displaying webmail unread message count, notifications and mail subjects, we then learned more about how it was developed and the technologies that were used to create it. It’s written in Python, using GObject introspection (PyGI) and integrates with Ubuntu through the Unity, Notify and Indicate modules. After describing each one in more detail, Dmitry continued talking about how the app can be translated using Launchpad, and how he uses the Bazaar source revision control system to work with code history. Wrapping up, he went through the plans for the future: more configuration options, marking all messages as read and the need for a new icon. Any takers? ;)

Ramping Up: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 2

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:33:03 +0000

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 2 Summary
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Another app developer day is over and we’re nearly halfway through the week. Here’s what happened yesterday:

Making Your App Speak Languages with Launchpad Translations
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By David Planella

In this session we learned how to link up an app that already has internationalization support to Launchpad Translations, so that it is exposed to Launchpad’s extensive community of translators who’ll effectively make your app speak almost any language. From setting up code hosting for a seamless integration, to setting up the translations settings to tips and tricks for best practices, the presentation should give developers a good grasp of how to start getting their apps translated and ready to reach a wider audience.

Great Is The Art Of Beginning: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 1

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:58:02 +0000

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 1 Summary
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The first day of Ubuntu App Developer Week is over and we’re ramping up to day 2! A great start and lots of interest in the audience. Here is a small summary from yesterday’s schedule.

Making Ubuntu a Target for App Developers
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By Jonathan Lange

Ubuntu Oneiric Open for Translation

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:23:17 +0000

After the first language packs have now been generated, I am pleased to announce that our current development release, Ubuntu Oneiric, is now open for translation:

Translation schedule. Remember that according to the release schedule translatable messages might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze on the week of the 25th of August.
Language packs. During the development cycle, language packs containing translations will be released twice per week except for the freeze periods. This will allow users and translators to quickly see and test the results of translations.
Test and report bugs. If you notice any issues (e.g. untranslated strings or applications), do check with the translation team for your language first. If you think it is a genuine bug, please report it.
Learn More. Learn how to start translating Ubuntu and enable millions to use it in their language.

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Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:04:04 +0000

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4 Summary
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Ramping up to the end of the week we had another full app development goodness day, and one where the session topics fitted together in a nice workflow as well: creating bling, creating apps with Rapid Prototyping, getting them into Ubuntu, adding indicator support and translating them. Here’s the report of yesterday’s app development journey:

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:14:37 +0000

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3 Summary
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Right into the middle of the week and still delivering the most diverse set of sessions from the most interesting technologies. QML, Cloud, D-Bus, Multitouch, Unity, Bazaar… Wednesday had a bit of everything. Most importantly, this sessions are for you all, so I was really glad to hear feedback on how people liked the content of App Developer Week! So here’s a new summary for all of those who couldn’t attend.

Launchpad Translators Rocking on Chromium: 16000 Messages Upstreamed

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:40:21 +0000

Fabien has told me he’ll explain in more detail in a later post, but I couldn’t resist mentioning it in the meantime.

Look at this:

ast 1024
ca 5
cs 80
da 36
de 351
es 538
eu 3457
fi 293
fr 26
gl 3475
he 252
id 116
it 77
ka 98
ku 387
lt 3
nl 227
no 83
pt-BR 437
ro 18
ru 225
sl 537
sr 102
sv 382
ug 3378
zh-CN 537

TOTAL 16144

That’s more than 16000 strings in 26 languages coming from Launchpad landing on Chromium upstream.

New Videocast Tomorrow: Ubuntu Translations Workflow II

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:00:15 +0000

Join me in a fresh episode of Ubuntu Translations TV tomorrow, where I’ll be continuing the series started on the last session and explain what happens to translations when they get out of Launchpad and are delivered to our users for some localized goodness.

Again, this will be a bit technical, but not too much, and it will help everyone understanding the big picture of how translations work in Ubuntu.

Double Translations Video Feature This Week

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:29:48 +0000

Lots of translations news on the air this week!

Yesterday I had the pleasure to chat with the legendary Danilo Šegan, of Launchpad Translations and GNOME internationalization fame.

Danilo told us all about the progress on upstream integration work in Launchpad and explained more in detail the part which has just been freshly implemented for Ubuntu: better translation imports from upstream projects.

New Launchpad Rollout: Please Put Translations on Hold for a Bit

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:25:57 +0000

NOTE: this notice affects only translations for upstream projects in Launchpad, and not the translations of Ubuntu packages.

Yesterday’s Launchpad rollout came with lots of translation goodness, such as better upstream imports, of which we’ll talk in more detail very soon.

However, as a side effect and due to a migration script not being run in the Launchpad side, we’d like to ask you to wait a bit to do new translations for upstream projects in Launchpad until we can run this script again and make sure new translations during this time are not reverted to suggestions.

New Ubuntu Translations Videocast tomorrow

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:29:51 +0000

Ladies and gents, I’m pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Translations videocast tomorrow from Dallas, Texas, where this week we are holding the Canonical Platform Rally for the next version of Ubuntu, the Natty Narwhal.

This time around I’ll have the privilege to be joined by Danilo Šegan (or his alter ego Данило Шеган), the Launchpad Translations developer team lead.

Those of you involved in translations will know Danilo well, not only for his work in developing the translations application in Launchpad, but also for his community involvement. A regular at UDS and GUADEC conferences, he’s also developed and maintained some of the key tools in the Free Software Localization ecosystem, such as xml2po and intltool.

Translation Tutorials: how to start translating Ubuntu

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:16:07 +0000

I talk often about the Ubuntu translations community, and one of the things I get asked many times is how to actually get started translating Ubuntu.

Because of this, and because I want to show everyone how easy it can be, I’ve decided to kick off a series of articles covering the different aspects of translations, starting with the basics.

So here it is: how to start translating Ubuntu, in 3 easy steps.

Natty Translations Plans II: Translations Training Sessions

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:42:22 +0000

Following the first in the series of posts about the plans for Ubuntu Translations on this cycle and their progress, this week I’d like to talk about Translations Training Sessions.

What we’d like is to run a series of regular events where translators can just attend and learn, in a hands-on way, all the different aspects of translating our favourite distro. There, they should also be able to ask their questions and discuss any topics related to translations. Another goal is to also provide material for all teams to adapt and reuse for their own training events for new translators.

Chromium opens to community translations in Launchpad

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:34:09 +0000

I’m very much thrilled to announce that Chromium, the Open Source project behind Google Chrome, the browser that is transforming the way we experience the web, is now open for community translation in Launchpad.

Chromium will be hosting its translations in Launchpad Translations, the collaborative online tool for translating Open Source projects and building community around them.

You can now translate Chromium online into almost any language. Using Launchpad’s simple web interface you’ll only need a Launchpad account, a web browser and good knowledge of English and the language you’ll be translating into.

Ubuntu Natty open for translation

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:59:44 +0000

After the new Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 pre-release, I am pleased to announce that Natty is now open for translation:

Translation caveats. Remember that according to the release schedule translatable messages might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze on the 24th of March.
Language packs. During the Natty development cycle, language packs containing translations will be released twice per week except for the freeze periods. This will allow users and translators to quickly see and test the results of translations.
Firefox. The first language packs will not yet contain Firefox translations. We’ll get them in soon as we’re adapting to the new upstream langpack packaging structure, so that Firefox is localized by default as usual.
Test and report bugs. If you notice any issues (e.g. untranslated strings or applications), do check with the translation team for your language first. If you think it is a genuine bug, please report it.

That’s it, happy translating! :-)

Daily build awesomeness

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:35:50 +0000

Today I’d like to let you know about a very cool Launchpad feature: Daily Builds.

In a nutshell: daily builds get Launchpad to work for developers and produce automatically or semi-automatically built packages of the latest code, ready for everyone to test and taste.

With daily builds you’ll be able to:

Make your software available to early adopters and testers very easily
Facilitate the work of testers and thus improve your software’s QA process

If that wheted your appetite, check out the documentation for more detailed info.

Launchpad Translations projects in Google Summer of Code 2010

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:23:42 +0000

As most of you know, we’ve got an amazing translations community in Ubuntu. Every day, hundreds of translators use Launchpad Translations as a tool to make our OS of choice available in almost any language.

As such, I’m thrilled to announce a set of GSoC projects focused on Launchpad Translations and aimed towards improving the Ubuntu translations community experience. Here they are:

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Package set views in Launchpad Translations
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Currently we expose the full list of translations in the main archive to Ubuntu translators. This is generally overwhelming for new translators and it does not show accurate statistics on how well translated a distribution is.

Launchpad on David Planella

Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation

Goodbye And Thanks For All the Apps: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 5 And Wrap-Up

All Good Things Come To An End: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4 Summary #

Creating an App Developer Website: developer.ubuntu.com #

Knowing Your Destination Is Half The Journey: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3 Summary #

Unity Mail: Webmail Notification on Your Desktop #

Ramping Up: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 2

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 2 Summary #

Making Your App Speak Languages with Launchpad Translations #

Great Is The Art Of Beginning: Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 1

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 1 Summary #

Making Ubuntu a Target for App Developers #

Ubuntu Oneiric Open for Translation

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4 Summary #

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3 Summary #

Launchpad Translators Rocking on Chromium: 16000 Messages Upstreamed

New Videocast Tomorrow: Ubuntu Translations Workflow II

Double Translations Video Feature This Week

New Launchpad Rollout: Please Put Translations on Hold for a Bit

New Ubuntu Translations Videocast tomorrow

Translation Tutorials: how to start translating Ubuntu

Natty Translations Plans II: Translations Training Sessions

Chromium opens to community translations in Launchpad

Ubuntu Natty open for translation

Daily build awesomeness

Launchpad Translations projects in Google Summer of Code 2010

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Package set views in Launchpad Translations #

Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4 Summary
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Creating an App Developer Website: developer.ubuntu.com
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Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3 Summary
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Unity Mail: Webmail Notification on Your Desktop
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Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 2 Summary
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Making Your App Speak Languages with Launchpad Translations
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Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 1 Summary
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Making Ubuntu a Target for App Developers
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Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 4 Summary
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Ubuntu App Developer Week - Day 3 Summary
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Projects
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Package set views in Launchpad Translations
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