Part 7. Process, quality and delivery¶

A translation that compiles has passed one test out of many. This part follows a string from the commit that changes its source to the release that ships its translation: the continuous loop of extraction, translation, checking and review; branches and merges that keep git the source of truth; a quality gate that blocks what machines can judge and escalates what they cannot; linguistic review with MQM error families, severities and sign-off; pseudo-localization before any translator is paid; the review tools and the people who take turns at them; vendors, translation management systems and project management; help, documentation and media beyond the catalog; and finally release, provenance and a roadmap. The classic process books of 1993 to 2002 supply the structure that still holds, the 2026 research corpus supplies the continuous pipeline, and the FontLab localization supplies the records of what a real review looked like.