# 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](https://launchpad.net/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 | | | | Tuesday | Focal | Jammy (archive) | | | Wednesday | Stonking | Focal (PPA) | | | Thursday | Bionic | Stonking | Ubuntu Release day | | Friday | Resolute | Bionic (PPA) | | | Saturday | Noble | Resolute | | | Sunday | | Noble (PPA) | | ## Notes - Launchpad crontabs are managed by the [launchpad-scripts](https://charmhub.io/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](https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/849829)). - Currently full language exports take much longer than expected, approaching 24h ([bug 684664](https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/684664))