QA test for L10N

ALIP BUDIANTO rabbit8888 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 04:49:33 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Noriko Mizumoto <noriko at redhat.com> wrote:

> James Laska さんは書きました:
> > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 14:28 +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
> >> Domingo Becker さんは書きました:
> >>> 2010/1/7 James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com>:
> >>>> The QA team doesn't provide/build the compose images, that is a
> service
> >>>> provided by release engineering.
> >>>> Looking at the dates you mention, the
> >>>> current F-13 QA schedule [2] shows that F-13-Alpha will be available
> for
> >>>> translation testing at that time.
> >>> Don't ask translators to build a live image from rawhide.
> >>> Based on my own experience, it will go wrong.
> >>> I was never able to make a 'Live CD from rawhide' work. Something
> >>> always goes wrong when booting.
> >>> It seems that development people starts from an early installer and
> >>> uses the update system since then.
> >>>
> >>> But if we use the Alpha compose to test, and our corrections and
> >>> improvements will be present in Alpha 2 or Beta compose to check once
> >>> more, that's ok and may work well.
> >>> We will need that packagers pay attention to our commits to their
> repositories.
> >> 'Compose alpha candidates' date is 2010-2-18, while 'String freeze' date
> >> is 2010-02-16. Alpha composed this timing may not contain most of
> >> new/updated translation strings for review and correction, no?
> >
> > As far as I understand, if the compose happens after the string freeze,
> > the alpha should contain all frozen translation content.
>
> The alpha should contain all frozen English strings, but after the
> string freeze, updating translation activity becomes most active. Two
> days would be too short to get new/modified strings being translated for
> review and correction purpose.
>
> I agree with this because two days will stress out the translators if they
are on full power.

>  >
> >>>> Additionally, there are nightly
> >>>> rawhide live images available [3] if testing against more recent
> updates
> >>>> is desired.
> >>>>
> >>> If these nightly rawhide live images work, it would be good.
> >>> But packagers would have to pay attention to our commits in order to
> >>> rebuild their packages with newer translations as soon as possible.
> >> It is said that having a 'nightly-composes of 5-Mar-2010' image
> >> available for certain period is possible [1]. Someone can give a hand on
> >> this?
> >>
> >> [1]:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2010-January/msg00019.html
> >
> > If there is a specific image you need for l10n testing, I'd recommend
> > submitting a request to release engineering for guidance on hosting the
> > image.  Several folks could host the image on their fedorapeople.org
> > pages, but I'd suggest starting with something more formal and rel-eng
> > can advise alternatives.
> >
> > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket
>
> New ticket has been created!  Thank you!
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/3420
>
> noriko
>
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