Hi Andre,
really thank you for initiating this thread to gather the requirements.
Please see my commetns below:
On 04/14/09 21:19, André Schnabel wrote:
Hi,
(please send replys to d...@l10n only)
within the last days, we had a discussion the request for providing more
ful installation packages.
The need was raised by the serbian team [1] but is valid for almost all
languages. Rafaella did forward the request to the OOo Community Council
[2].
For the Council (and I think for all of us) it's important to understand
the real needs ("we need all the builds on all platforms in all
languages" is no good answer to this ;) ) and the problems we have. So
I'd ask you to answer these questions (at least those of you who can
provide good input).
- What are the requirements of the native lang teams?
E.g. do we really need full installation sets on each platform (even
several installation sets for some platforms). Do we need all the
packages at the same time? Do we need the files on the mirror network
... (these are just some items that come tomy mind).
I think that the requirements should be defined based on the purpose. I
can identify 3 major milestones:
- l10n testing: this usually happens after the translated files are
delivered to verify the quality of the product form the l10n perspective
before the translations get integrated into the master. For this
purpose, CWS builds are used
- Verification of translation progress and l10n testing: some teams
would like to see their translation efforts before the translation is
100% completed. For this purpose, I would recommend to use developer builds
- Releasing localized builds: in order to release the builds, the
language teams need to approve a RC build. For this purpose full
installation sets are needed.
- What are the restrictions we have to face?
Restricted resources for distribution were mentioned - I'd lik to see
concrete numbers here. Esp. the question if these limited resources are
under our control or not is important.
Problems with limited build resources were also mentioned - I hope,
someone can provide details.
I asked some people to (temporarly) join this list, so we hopefully have
all people here to discuss the topic. And I hope, we can get to a
compromise how to improve the situation afterwards.
Best,
André
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05885.html
[2]
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=1986
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