= Purpose =

This page documents the schedule of automatic translations tarball exports from Launchpad to be used as a source to [[https://launchpad.net/langpack-o-matic|langpack-o-matic]] to create the Ubuntu language packs.

= Status =

For the live status on the language pack builds, have a look [[http://macquarie.canonical.com/~langpack/crontab|here]]

= Current export schedule =

Note: these are the ''starting'' days of the exports.  The cron jobs to start generating the language-pack tarballs start on these days.  Then langpack-o-matic picks them up the next day.
 * Export starts: '''10:30 UTC'''
 * Build starts: '''10:30 UTC''' next day

|| '''Weekday''' || '''Launchpad Exports''' || '''Language Pack Builds''' || '''Notes''' ||
|| '''Monday'''  || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+language-packs|Jammy]] || [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/mantic/+source/language-pack-en/+changelog|Mantic]] || - ||
|| '''Tuesday''' || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+language-packs|Focal]] || [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+source/language-pack-en/+changelog|Jammy (archive)]] || - ||
|| '''Wednesday''' || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+language-packs|Trusty]] || [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=focal|Focal (PPA)]] || ||
|| '''Thursday''' || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+language-packs|Bionic]] ||  || Ubuntu releases day ||
|| '''Friday''' || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/mantic/+language-packs|Mantic]] || [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=bionic|Bionic (PPA)]] || - ||
|| '''Saturday''' || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/mantic/+language-packs|Noble]] ||  || - ||
|| '''Sunday''' || [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+language-packs|Xenial]] || || - ||

= Notes =

 * Launchpad crontabs live in a branch at lp:lp-production-crontabs (look at the `loganberry.canonical.com-launchpad` file). If the crontab entries need changing, do the updates yourself in a branch and propose a merge.
 * The old timing (was 22:00 UTC) used to be chosen so we hit the times when we usually expect the lowest load. Most of the translation work happens in Europe, South America and Asia, and 22:00 UTC should mean less load on LP due to translation activity. With DB slaves, though, this is probably not something we should worry about.
 * The new timing (10:30 UTC) was chosen to be after the new fastnodowntime window at 10:00 - 10:05 UTC during which the database will shortly be unavailable. This would break the export run and has to be avoided ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/849829|bug 849829]]).
 * Currently full language exports take much longer than expected, approaching 24h ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/684664|bug 684664]])