Hello, On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:07:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:38, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Last weeks have seen a lot of progress on the Pootle installation on > > i18n.debian.net. This mail will try to summarize them. > > Thank you for the update, but, to be honest, I am more concerned about the > future plans and especially the moment that pootle will be opened for > actual use. > > We have always identified as essential functionality: > - the support for (and the ability to manage) team and translator > ownership of translations; > - support for team review policy. > > I don't believe this is implemented yet (and you confirmed the first one > on IRC). Especially with the occasional horror stories of what happens > with "our" translations in Ubuntu sometimes in mind, I personally would > not like to see any of "my" translations (including the Dutch D-I > translation) to be opened up for modification through pootle before such > a mechanism is in place. > > I feel that at the very least translators should be able to lock down any > (individual) or all translations for their language before any editing is > allowed that could end up in uploads of packages.
It is currently possible to define rights for users in a project/language. This is probably not sufficient since one user who can change the translations of one file can also change another file (there are not that many files in D-I so coordination between the knights of Nicky-Nicky could be enough; for po-debconf or DDTP, there are too many files for an efficient communication). There is also the ability to set goals and assign goals to users. This permits to assign strings/files to an user. But anybody who has the right to translate can change a file assigned to somebody else. I will try to make a patch to change 'goals' to 'reservations', i.e. only allow making suggestions when a string is assigned to somebody else. For the "support for team review policy", I'm also looking for ideas. Nothing done yet (except the existing 'suggestions' feature). I would like to have the possibility to ask for a review: * of all the strings in a file * of the strings which changed since a previous call for review The review itself could then be done a suggestions in Pootle or on the mailing lists. Kind Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
