- Quality is paramount, and the DDTP is translated with restricted permissions to ensure that. - I don't mind having a backlog of suggestions. - The quality of those suggestions often varies, but my guess is that a mecanism like that would mainly draw people who were interested by the package in the first place, and will thus have a knowledge of it, and vested interest in having a proper suggestion.
On the technical side: - Implementation in the web interface (relatively straightforward using Nightmonkey code) - Implementation in the Desktop Client (might be more complicated, not sure how the software center is coded) - The Launchpad timeout (https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/869824) is a big issue. It seems that the Canonical cloud team is focused on other areas right now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Translations Coordinators, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Translations. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu Translations bug mail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061489 Title: Add a button "Translate this description" to crowdsource Package translations Status in Ubuntu Software Center: New Status in The synaptic package manager: New Status in Ubuntu Translations: New Status in Ubuntu web catalog: New Bug description: There are a lot of untranslated software descriptions in WebCatalog, Software Center and Synaptic (60000+ strings in most languages, https://translations.launchpad.net/ddtp-ubuntu/ ). Relying solely on translators doesn't scale. Would it be possible to add a mechanism to enable translation suggestion crowdsourcing ? The basic idea would be a button to "Translate this software description" below each untranslated description that would enable users to easily provide a translation suggestion to the DDTP, either inline, or using Launchpad. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-center/+bug/1061489/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators Post to : ubuntu-translations-coordinators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp