Colin, I'm sorry for replying a month after the fact. I only found your message just now in an overflowing mailbox.
Colin Watson wrote: > I think, at minimum, we ought to be able to have certain privileges > attached to translations of source packages for those who can upload > them to the relevant distribution anyway. We probably also ought to be > able to alter translation privileges on certain source packages, > although I think this should be the exception rather than the rule. One thing may need some work on a case-by-case basis: the system does not think in terms of translating a source package. Instead, what matters is the combination of a source package name and a distribution release series. A distribution release series, such as Intrepid, in turn belongs to a distribution, such as Ubuntu. Obviously we can't just attach privileges to a source package name, since the same source package name might occur in a different distribution (and most probably will in another release series of the same distribution). There's always ways around it, but then the choice comes: should a privilege be for this package in this distribution? Or only in this release series? > The good news is that this does not necessarily have to involve > significant changes to Launchpad. Currently, I generate a master set of > POT and PO files for the installer which Launchpad Translations > administrators then upload. We could split those files into three big > lumps: one for the strings that come directly from Debian and should not > generally be changed; one for the strings that require branding changes > in Ubuntu; and one for the strings that are new in Ubuntu. Those could > then be uploaded to separate templates in Launchpad, and translators > could be given separate advice about what to translate. We could > maintain the filtering for this on the Ubuntu side; I don't expect that > it would be all that difficult. Sounds good! You could easily have three separate templates with different descriptions in the same package. Jeroen -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
