2012/3/11 Gavin McDonald <ga...@16degrees.com.au>: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paolo Pozzan [mailto:pa...@z2z.it] >> Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2012 7:02 AM >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [Translate] Users for Pootle Server >> >> Il 09/03/2012 22:22, Rob Weir ha scritto: >> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Michael Bauer<f...@akerbeltz.org> wrote: >> [cut] >> >> 2) Allow account creating as on other Pootle servers without any >> >> hoops to jump through other than the usual signup process. >> >> >> >> In essence, handle Pootle and l10n as it was handled before. >> >> >> > >> > Most of us are not familiar with how it was handled before, so it is >> > good to discuss the details, so we all understand it. >> > >> > Right now it is configured so all Apache committers can login and have >> > review and commit rights. Non-logged in users (everyone else) can >> > view, suggest and submit translations. >> >> It's not useful to give causal contributors write access to >> translations: they usually don't know what writing style to follow and don't >> know the correct terminology. This will only mess up things or give more >> work to do to the translators. Please don't let submit rights to non-logged >> users. > > In your mind, what do you think 'submit rights' mean?
I mean the right to push the "submit" button of the pootle interface when trying to modify a string. This leads to overwriting the previous translation. > To me it means submit a translation for approval by a committer, without such > approval it does nothing and harms nothing. Why are you against such actions > whilst the rest of the people in this thread are trying to open up access > even more? You are talking about the "suggest" feature (and button). Right now anybody can overwrite the translations without logging in at all. I am favorable to open up access but only to translators, not everyone. Paolo
