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head_victimblahdeblah & elky: as someone who knows a lot more about administering websites than I, what are your thoughts on starting afresh with the user list for ubuntu.org.au, the benefit being you can make it so you can only log in with your launchpad openid (should dramatically reduce the spam user count).06:04
head_victimAnd anyone else with comments are welcome to make them.06:04
blahdeblahhead_victim: Sounds good to me!06:04
head_victimblahdeblah: I really can't see a downside. We pretty much need people to have launchpad accounts for the loco.u.c site as it is.06:05
blahdeblahyep06:05
blahdeblahdo it06:05
head_victimI just don't like making decisions like that as I'm not what you'd call a website admin guru.06:06
head_victimThanks for confirming my suspicions.06:06
blahdeblahI think just give people some warning (say 1-4 weeks) that it's going to happen, then make it so.06:15
head_victimThe only downside is all the current posts will have to be assigned to an archive user06:15
head_victimBut I'm just posting to the list saying "we need a yes/no in X amount of time, speak now or forever hold your peace"06:15
DarrenSsorry I'll revise that we can retain historical sanely.06:16
head_victimBasically no one has argued against anything I've proposed so far so I'm just going with it. I'm giving opportunity for others to have input but if none is received going with what I think works06:16
head_victimI've been learing lots through the process as well which is always good06:17
head_victimsagaci: trans event tonight?06:23
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sagacihead_victim: yeppers06:35
head_victimsagaci: cool I'll dent/tweet, anything special you want in there?06:35
sagacinot really, it's just an event to see if there's any lurkers out there who want to help06:37
head_victimGood excuse for a jam06:38
head_victimI may be around I'm not sure. I ahve a few things I have to do today and running out of day to do them06:38
head_victimIt's in just over an hour right?06:39
sagaciyep, got the l.u.c wrong, should be 1900 GMT+1006:41
sagaciso 8pm nsw06:41
sagacizzz timezones06:41
head_victimSo actually in 3 hours06:41
head_victimNo06:41
head_victimI was right the first time.06:41
head_victimI love timezones06:41
head_victimSpam the list :) Go on, you know you want to06:42
sagaciwell at first I didn't think of it, but now you mention it, I may as well06:43
head_victimAnd FB :)06:43
sagaciI don't use FB06:44
head_victimI only use it for the team.06:44
head_victimjaddi does a nice job of that currently though06:44
sagacihead_victim: should be in a tad over 2 hours06:45
sagaci8pm NSW, 7pm QLD, etc06:45
sagacishouldn't have even worried about UTC/GMT in the email06:48
sagaci:/06:48
gggsneeds to be more people using UTC on the internet, it's not difficult :)07:11
head_victimbejames: any news on the libraries?07:14
DarrenShead_victim: I sorted that logo thing, check the method in the theme config07:32
bejameshead_victim: no, never got a chance to wander up to BSQ this week. Been busier that a one legged man in a bum kicking contest this week. Should be able to do it next week07:33
head_victimbejames: that's ok, sorry for before i had to run just after I pinged you08:26
sagacihi, I think this will just be a small and short meeting, but I'll use the meetingology bot anyway to log it all properly09:00
sagaci#startmeeting Ubuntu en_AU translations - precise 12.04 cycle09:02
meetingologyMeeting started Fri Nov  4 09:02:35 2011 UTC.  The chair is sagaci. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanBell/mootbot.09:02
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sagaciif anyone is around and would like to participate, just say something to log your attendance :)09:03
head_victimEvening09:03
head_victimI made it back :)09:03
sagacihttp://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/ubuntu-au/254/detail/ -- basic agenda of this meeting09:04
jaddi27hi09:04
sagaci#topic Update on en_AU translations for the Precise cycle09:05
sagaciSo as of 4/11/11, we're around 85.7% complete of all the packages, (bearing in mind that we have all the main Ubuntu packages done)09:06
sagaciwhich equates to around 53,000 strings to do09:07
sagacialso keep in mind the rough estimate of 20-40,000 potential new strings -- however shouldn't be too many since this is an LTS and most of the changes have already happened... ie. unity, gnome3, gtk, banshee09:08
jaddi27I think we should be on track to get this done by 12.0409:09
head_victimIt's looking pretty good actually09:09
head_victimMy hat is off to you two actually, you've really taken the bull by the horns.09:09
sagaciand thus we're No.4 overall on the translation board, behind Spanish, en_GB, and Brazilian Portuguese 09:09
jaddi27I know that I will have more time after uni finishes next week to translate more09:09
head_victimAnd their teams are quite large by comparison.09:10
jaddi27I think we are doing well, seeing as we started fairly late (I think, anyway)09:10
sagacitranslating into en_AU is a whole different beast than to translating into italian and any other non en-based language09:11
sagacibut that doesn't make it any less important09:11
jaddi27yes, i agree with that09:12
jaddi27i have really started to notice things in windows that are using enUS english09:13
sagaci500 strings may take us 15-20mins but 500 strings for something like Tibetan might take a day with intense peer-review09:13
jaddi27mice that ubuntu is mostly right now09:13
head_victimI must admit since starting translation I really notice it in other systems when the locale isn't set, or worse yet it's set but it's still wrong.09:14
sagacitranslation has opened me up to ubuntu development in itself, filing bugs and fixing them so it's no longer an issue09:15
head_victimThe process is the same no matter what the issue is.09:15
sagacialthough I tend to spot a typo once in every thousand strings09:15
head_victimI'm lazy enough that I'd like to see someone develop a plugin to have a button beside each string to "report a bug" on it.09:15
jaddi27i have found a couple of typos, but haven't really followed them up09:15
sagaciplus it helps new developers tackle these trivial bugs to learn the bzr/lp workflow09:15
head_victimObviously not high on anyone's to do list ;)09:16
jaddi27head_victim, yes, that would be good09:16
sagaci*coughbang* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-translations-en-au-120409:17
jaddi27If I could understand where the code for everything was, I would try to make something up,but I can't find all the code09:17
head_victimsagaci: how large were you saying the entire PO was?>09:18
sagacior file a wishlist bug09:18
sagacihead_victim: compressed or ?09:18
head_victimWhatever you have to download of lp09:19
sagacii think it was 580MB09:19
sagacigive or take 20m09:19
head_victimOk, is that a factor for you?09:20
sagacibut now I'm just thinking, you wouldn't have to reupload it all, just the individual po's to their respective package09:20
sagacino09:20
jaddi27Is that for doing the scraping?09:20
sagaciyup09:20
head_victimOk, I just recall you weren't on the best connection at one point so making sure.09:20
jaddi27Are you going to do that? Also, is it just done on already translated strings, or all strings09:21
sagacioh nah, that's just my arrogance to think that I should be able to download gigs and gigs of data on a wireless connection 24/709:21
sagaciwirelss 3G/4G, that is09:21
head_victimWell you can, I've downloaded a couple of hundred GB on wireless before just to make sure it wasn't metered ;)09:22
sagacieventually but we need to make sure that most of the strings are done09:22
sagaciie. 95%+09:22
jaddi27ok09:22
sagacihead_victim: lp/basepacks aren't unmetered09:22
head_victimBut yeah, I am generally only comfortable with poedit at this stage for offline po editing09:23
head_victimsagaci: nope, but I was suprised how quickly you can get 100GB over wireless.09:23
sagaciare you talking WiFi or 3G/4G?09:23
head_victim3G09:23
sagaciyeah, it's ok09:24
jaddi27head_victim, what type of stuff were you getting unmetered? was it through bigpond wireless?09:24
sagaciubuntu repo mostly09:24
sagaciand ubuntu srcs, which is handy09:24
head_victimjaddi27: yeah just the aarnet stuff. Was trying to make sure it was unmetered and accidentally left it on overnight hence the 100GB instead of say 10gb to test.09:24
jaddi27ok09:24
head_victimBut back on topic, when you dl the po would poedit be useful or is it just going to be too huge for a gui?09:24
sagacithey're separate .po's09:25
jaddi27sagaci, what is the kubuntu-alpha and cli-beta sections on the blueprint?09:27
sagaciyou download the basepack, put it in a new dir under home (or wherever), extract it... blows up to about 3-4GB09:27
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sagacithat was about 4-6 weeks ago as a note to myself on the status of those packages as a whole09:27
sagacikubuntu was pretty untranslated/untouched and the commandline packages were ok but nothing incredible09:28
sagaciit's pretty much moot now since we're mowing them down09:28
jaddi27ok. sounds good09:29
sagacijust need to focus on getting them done and then getting the high-priority strings recorrected, "mobile phone", "rubbish bin" etc09:29
sagaciaccording to the English Translation guide, anyway09:29
head_victimYeah I basically default to the enGB wiki when I'm not sure09:30
head_victimI also have an Australian Macquarie dictionary just in case09:30
jaddi27ok. are there any changes we need to make compared to the enGB page?09:30
sagaciexclamations09:30
jaddi27head_victim, would you say cypher or cipher? enGB is saying cypher09:31
sagaciprobably used to years and years of Internet Explorer cipher09:31
head_victimhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypher_%28disambiguation%29 gives some indication09:32
head_victimIt would appear they're very interchangeable09:32
jaddi27yes, looks like it. on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher, they have both spellings09:33
blahdeblahcipher gets my vote09:33
jaddi27Do we have a preference for what I am translating at the moment?09:33
head_victimI would have probably said cypher until I just googled it. 09:33
jaddi27ok. i will just leave those strings for now09:34
jaddi27I will have to go to dinner now - be back later on09:34
head_victimCipher is the main entry in the austrlaian concise oxford, cypher is listed as just a variant of cipher09:36
jaddi27Ok. will put it as cipher09:36
head_victimMaybe we need our own wiki list?09:37
jaddi27might be a good idea09:37
jaddi27copy the enGB one, and modify it to suit09:37
head_victimsagaci: could we add that to the blueprint?09:37
sagacisure09:37
sagaci#action create modified en_AU translation list, deriving from the en_GB wiki page09:40
meetingologyACTION: create modified en_AU translation list, deriving from the en_GB wiki page09:40
head_victim#link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation/WordSubstitution09:41
head_victimFor reference that is the enGB list09:41
sagacianything else, finish off these last 50-70,000 strings and then focus on fixing mistakes/mistranslations and then just fix them as they come in09:42
sagaciand thus focus on the iso l10n09:42
sagacipretty much ready to wrap it up09:46
sagaci#endmeeting09:48
meetingologyMeeting ended Fri Nov  4 09:48:07 2011 UTC.  09:48
meetingologyMinutes:        http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-au/2011/ubuntu-au.2011-11-04-09.02.moin.txt09:48
head_victimThanks for the update :)09:50
sagacino problem09:55
head_victimblahdeblah: you'd be proud, I'm learing some html in the website update. I still remember how poor my first attempts were.09:57
blahdeblahWe're all poor when we start out09:57
head_victimI've learnt how to insert images and then centre vertically and horizontally those images into a drupal block. Thank goodness for google.09:58
blahdeblahthe only way to code HTML ;-)10:00
jaddi27sagaci, thanks for the update10:29
jaddi27head_victim, is wysiwyg installed on the website? it makes drupal posting much easier10:30
sagacino worries, just settting up my main laptop with the latest precise daily10:30
jaddi27head_victim, i prefer ckeditor as the editor over tinymce if that is of use also10:31
head_victimjaddi27: no idea tbh10:31
head_victimI think it will come down to if we're going to have admins doing the posting or if we'll open it up for all users to post.10:31
jaddi27sagaci, I am surprised they have released a version already - there mustn't be many changes since oneiric10:31
sagacinah and it's going to be pretty unstable for a while10:32
jaddi27head_victim, You can do profiles (from memory they are in drupal6 also - i mainly use drupal7), so registered users/admins/whatever is selected can use the ckeditor, while others just have to use plain text10:32
head_victimjaddi27: yeah with the number of spam users we had on the old website we had to manually allow edit rights per person when they wanted to post.10:34
head_victimSSO is hopefully going to help with that10:35
jaddi27yes, i can understand that10:35
jaddi27we will still have to monitor it, but if it is openid, it should help10:35
head_victimThat and it's just clicking, no remembering passwords10:35
jaddi27http://drupal.org/project/mollom might be worth looking at10:36
jaddi27it gets good reviews, and is written by the drupal founder, so integrates very well10:36
head_victimThe main issue is as it's Canonical hosted it either has to be already in use somewhere in Canonical or it has to be security vetted.10:36
head_victimWhich is appropriate in my opinion. So as long as modules meet the required outcomes I don't mind which specific ones they are.10:37
jaddi27ok. Well I think at lease mollom would be useful, even if we don't get the text editing module10:40
jaddi27The text editor is: http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg, which I would use with http://ckeditor.com/10:41
jaddi27in case you wanted to know10:41
head_victimI'll pass it on :)10:42
head_victimI'd favour the text editing personally, if we lock it down to openid I'd be interested to see if we get any spam users at all.10:43
head_victimConsidering how rare it is to see spam on launchpad10:43
jaddi27Yes, that is true10:44
head_victimI'm writing a list of wishlist modules, currently there is Date, Calendar, WYSIWYG, CKEditor & Mollom. All I'm really after is function though so I won't think twice if they offer something similar that's going to dramatically reduce the amount of resources they have to spend on the project.10:46
head_victimBut that being said, we're the test case for all the canonical host sites, so when we're up and running well they'll start migrating the other users.10:46
jaddi27IMCE - http://drupal.org/project/imce  - is a image/file browser, which when the integration module with wysiwyg is installed, makes it very easy to do images10:46
jaddi27head_victim, Just to clarify, there is a ckeditor module as well as wysiwyg, but so far I have used the latter because it is being more widely used10:47
jaddi27I think both work fine though10:47
jaddi27And wysiwyg does not include a text editor, so you have to install one, which is where ckeditor comes in10:48
head_victimNo dramas, the Canonical staff have had to do plenty of hand holding while I work out what I'm meant to be asking for and how to answer their questions ;) I'm learning lots which is good though.10:48
jaddi27Yes, that is good to hear10:48

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