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Feature

Est. Cost

Status

5.0

1

3

11

Cleaned-up "fuzzy" and "needs review" handling
Resolves bunch of related problems.

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2.1.9

3.0

2

1

6

Sharing messages between release series

31

∙ Schema additions

2

1.2.4

∙ Keep new columns up to date

/

1.2.5

∙ Populate uninitialized values in new columns

2

2.1.12

∙ Code switchover

10

Landed in 2.2.4, QA ahead

∙ Check and clean-up existing POTemplate names

2

In progress for 2.2.4

∙ Merge data into shared messages

6

In progress for 2.2.4

∙ UI for diverging translations

1

TBD in 2.2.5

∙ Copying series into a new one

4

TBD in 2.2.5 for Karmic opening

∙ Clean-up unused database columns

4

4.0

3

2

7

∙ Live population of translations for new productseries
Depends on message sharing, so may not fit.

2

Related to Copying series into a new one.

Link to external style guide

2 (+ 1 for #308527)

2.2.1, 2.2.2

5.0

6

4

Selective exports: "only Launchpad changes"

5

2.2.1, 2.2.2

Escape carriage returns during export

1

2.2.1

Notify Ubuntu packagers about translation upload problems

2

2.2.2

Performance week: Person:+translations, POFile:+translate speed-ups

3

2.2.2

Remove obsolete Ubuntu translations

3

2.2.3, to be run

Import queue improvements to reduce time people wait for approval: #331124, #298082, #321459

6

2.2.2, 2.2.3

6.0

7

4

9

Extract PO templates from a hosted branch

9

2.2.3

∙ UI changes

3

∙ Scan a branch, extract POT files and import them

3

∙ POT auto-approval for simple cases

3

∙ Auto-regenerate POT files in branches

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Performance and security implications (needs full check-out, runs of xgettext and intltool which are untrusted apps), too many options.

6.0

7

4

9

Extract PO files from a hosted branch

1

Landed in 2.2.4

Show import failure messages in the import queue UI

5

TBD in 2.2.4

∙ Translation import queue API

3

Landed in 2.2.4

∙ JavaScript and AJAX to show error messages on-demand.

2

In progress for 2.2.4

Allow Ubuntu translation coordinators to manage Ubuntu import queue: #334787, #334227, #341081, #353706

2

2.2.3, 2.2.4

Performance week: DistroSeriesLanguage:+index speed-ups

3

2.2.4

Translations overview page for Products/ProductSeries

3

TBD in 2.2.4

Provide admin-oriented view of templates in a series

2

TBD in 2.2.4

Migrate to NavigationMenus: potemplate and distribution pages

2+1

TBD in 2.2.4

6.0

4

8

Pushing translations back to hosted bzr branches

8

TBD in 2.2.5

∙ UI changes to select a translations branch

3

TBD in 2.2.5

∙ Export files from Translations and commit them to a branch

4

TBD in 2.2.5

∙ Set-up access to bazaar machine from loganberry and schedule a cronjob for commits.
Procedural task, but requires a lot of multiple team communication.

1

TBD in 2.2.5

Tree reorganization

TBD during coding sprint during UDS

POFile:+translate page improvements

TBD during coding sprint during UDS

Personal translations dashboard

TBD during coding sprint during UDS

6.0

5

10

5

Further search improvements
More natural range of possibilities from global site search to per-translation search.

1.0

-

1

Feeds/Notifications on new suggestions

1.0

-

1

Feeds/Notifications on import status changes

1.0

-

1

Feeds/Notifications on translation updates

4.0

-

5

3

Translation coverage reporting
Finer-grained information on how well Ubuntu is translated: desktop, MID/netbook
Should be looked up after package set are available. Investigate the status of the coverage tool planned by the distro. APIs would help with this as well.

8.0

8

6

12

Navigation improvements
Still some gaping holes in how people browse to a package's translations.

UI sprint in March 2009

List highest priority untranslated packages first
As a translator, I want the translatable packages list to show the highest priority untranslated packages first.

1

Clarify upload form to explain how auto approvals work

1

translator-credits remains "untranslated", so the percentage is < 100%

2

Translated strings counts translations that may not be translated in Launchpad anymore

2

Combining search and filtering on +translate pages

1

Rosetta overrules number of spaces
Start out by separating indentation in browser & import code.

1

8.0

-

7

10

Extensive documentation
Sounds mundane but we'd love to set aside some real time for it!

Some user documentation already on https://help.launchpad.net/Translations (for users and maintainers)

9.0

-

9

Commercial translation support
Support contractor doing on-request translation of a language for Ubuntu.

12.0

-

11

13

References back to the source code
Hard because of per-project differences in translation setup. Could also be difficult/costly to avoid broken links etc.