Another year, another cool conference! This time is LOUCA 2023, a combined conference for LibreOffice and Ubuntu. It was on Saturday and Sunday, October 7th & 8th, 2023 in Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta. I presented a lightning talk on first day, titled "State of Ubuntu Indonesian Translation". My first time giving a lightning talk (only 10 minutes! usually I have longer session, but for this occassion, I tried if I can effectively use a shorter one), and EO has put someone with very helpful banners within audiences, saying "5 minutes left", "1 minute left", "time's up" (or so, didn't really remember what was written :D). Thank you! It helped me manage my timing.
For you who can not attend, or attended but did not clearly catch what I said there, I will explain again here:
1. for Ubuntu Jammy (22.04), if you check Ubuntu's translation platform, you will see numbers like this (beware, language listed here will depend on your site settings; since I am a member of Indonesian and Javanese teams, by default Ubuntu Launchpad display those two languages):
As you can see, there are 180k+ strings still not translated into Indonesian, from total around 317k strings. More than half!
2. For Ubuntu Mantic (23.10), it is even worse, around 208k+ untranslated, from total around 350k strings.
Why so low? Do they really represent the real condition when someone tried to use Indonesian while using Ubuntu?
The answer has several parts. First, Ubuntu has created a list of packages that can be translated via its translation platform. Not all packages installable from Ubuntu repo can be translated via Launchpad. If you check using aptitude, you will see around
- 80k installable packages
- 25k virtual packages
- 30k tasks
