[OpenStack-I18n] translated release note: import criteria and publishing

Ian Y. Choi ianyrchoi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 06:37:48 UTC 2016


Dear language coordinators and translators,

Please write opinions on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/384183/ for 
this issue :)


Andreas Jaeger wrote on 10/9/2016 6:03 PM:
> On 10/09/2016 10:54 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> On 10/09/2016 10:45 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>> On 10/09/2016 07:50 AM, Ian Y. Choi wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> By the way, I think we need to discuss the value minimum: 40%, since the
>>>> value has been changed from previous 20% (actually 8% in script).
>>> 8 % only for two specific files - and those files don't exist in this
>>> form anymore...
>>>
>>>> I have updated [4] about several months ago. At that time I just
>>>> referred Wiki documentation [5].
>>>> On March, the value was still 20% [6].
>>>>
>>>> IMO Andreas temporally changed the value from 20% to 30% [7] and 40% [8]
>>>> for cleaning up purposes.
>>>> So which minimum percent value would be appropriate for I18n team?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [4] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/i18n/infra.html#translation-jobs
>>>> [5]
>>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Translations/Infrastructure#Translation_percentage_changes
>>>> [6]
>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-i18n/2016-March/001993.html
>>>> [7] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/372141/
>>>> [8] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/375285/
>>> We agreed some time ago (a year or two?) that as "release criteria" we
>>> have 60 % as minimum for translationed - and so we removed some files
>>> manually prior to releases that had low translation rate.
>>>
>>> This time I didn't want to check all repositories again, so looked at a
>>> different way.
>>>
>>> Initially, I didn't want to hardcode the 60 % value into the scripts out
>> 66 % percent - see
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/release-tools/tree/translation-cleanup.sh#n192
>>
>> # For partial translations and choosing 75% , see
>> # https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1317794.  The number 66 %
>> # was choosen for releases so that partial translation does not get
>> # removed due to last minute string changes.
> What about https://review.openstack.org/384183 ? I've WIP'ed it until we
> finished this discussion.
>
> Andreas

Thank you for explanation and caring with it.

>>> of fear of a jo-jo effect, specially for smaller files: A couple of
>>> untranslated strings might easily make the percent go from 75 % to 60 %
>>> - and that's why we had 20 % initially. Seeing how it worked over time,
>>> I slowly raised the values while monitoring the effect in the daily imports.
>>>
>>> So, should we keep it at 40 % for the scripts?
>>>
>>> Btw. let's document at one place only - on docs.o.o,
Now I am inclined to agree with minimum *40%* after I saw Andreas's 
comments.
But I would like to wait for a few days more to collect opinions.


With many thanks,

/Ian
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>
>




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