Automatic translations tarball exports ====================================== This page documents the schedule of automatic translations tarball exports from Launchpad to be used as a source to `langpack-o-matic `__ to create the Ubuntu language packs. Status ------ For the live status on the language pack builds, have a look at macquarie.canonical.com/~langpack/crontab (XXX URL needs to be updated). 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 | Jammy | Mantic | | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ | Tuesday | Focal | Jammy (archive) | | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ | Wednesday | Trusty | Focal (PPA) | | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ | Thursday | Bionic | | Ubuntu Release day | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ | Friday | Mantic | Bionic (PPA) | | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ | Saturday | Noble | | | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ | Sunday | Xenial | | | +-----------+-------------------+----------------------+--------------------+ Notes ----- - Launchpad crontabs are managed by the `launchpad-scripts `_ charm. - 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 (`bug 849829 `__). - Currently full language exports take much longer than expected, approaching 24h (`bug 684664 `__)