Ubuntu Docs Status Page
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Last days I have hacked some ubuntu-docs script to show an overview of error in translations and see the Rosetta translations as HTML pages.
The result can be found at the following address: http://ubuntu-docs-stats.tla.ro/ubuntu-8.10/
The purpose of this page is to make translators aware of the problems and help them find and fix them. Also the HTML [...]
Tags: Free Software, Launchpad, Ubuntu
Launchpad Drupal Plugins in LoCo Drupal 6
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Hi,
With the courage and help of Lucian Adrian Grijincu I have managed to install and configure the Launchpad Drupal Plugins for Drupal 6 provided by loco-drupal team. The openid-team modules is working OK and also can be used only with the default Drupal OpenID model. The opneid-launchpad module is not fully functional as I was [...]
Tags: Free Software, Launchpad, Ubuntu
I know what I did last year … 2008
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Below is an unordered list of thinks I did last year
Went to FOSDEM 2008
Got snowboard gear and first falls
Got my LPI level 1
Sold my Suzuki GS500 bike
Got a new used Kawasaki KLE 500 bike
Got an used VW Golf4 Variant
Ubuntu Hardy Release Party in Cluj-Napoca
Document Freedom Day 2008 in Romania
FLOSS Camp 2008 in Păltiniș
Firefox 3 Release [...]
Tags: free software, Free Software, Ubuntu
Jaunty Translations at the start - Top 10
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Now that Jaunty translations are available in Launchpad I thought it is a good time to look at some numbers, statistics and damn lies to see were we stand.
I looked at first 10 languages as displayed by translation status page in Jaunty. This should be just a rough look at the current state of Ubuntu [...]
Tags: Free Software, Launchpad, Ubuntu
Launchpad Translators Groups
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Friday, the 12th of December 2008, at UDS we discussed the idea of having Launchpad Translators Groups in Launchpad.
These translations groups are not targeted for translations Launchpad itself but translate projects available for translation in Launchpad using Rosetta. The translation groups should focus on doing upstream translations for project hosted in Rosetta but also collaborate [...]
Tags: Free Software, Launchpad, Ubuntu
i18n blocker policy in Ubuntu
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
For the last Ubuntu release (8.10 Intrepid) we had usb-creator and cruft-remover which were delivered without internationalization support. The i18n support was added later, so we do have them available for translation in Rosetta.
We all want to have Ubuntu available to everyone and in every language, so to prevent and mitigate the risk of not [...]
Tags: Free Software, Ubuntu
Ubuntu 8.04 on iBook G4
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
I just got a small iBook G4 12” (late 2004), 1.2 Ghz PPC laptop.
Thinks that make me happy:
full size keyboard.
great power management and battery life
power indicator leds available on the battery (like for the old pc laptops)
in terms of performance, at least for browsing and reading emails it’s ok
Major annoyance:
the keys are great, to bad [...]
Tags: Free Software, Ubuntu
