At the moment, a new translation volunteer, when we create a new account
in Pootle https://translate.apache.org/ , can edit all OpenOffice
translations in all languages. This does not make sense, since Pootle
allows to assign a translator to one (or more) languages. And we need to
use permissions more wisely also in preparation for the future genlang
system (this would only be a first step in that respect).
So I propose, subject to lazy consensus, that if a person volunteers for
languages X and Y we assign permissions to edit only the translations
into languages X and Y. All accounts created in 2014 (and many of those
created in 2013) already have the correct per-language permissions, so
if we unset the "global" permission they will continue to work normally.
The change is retroactive, but of course the l10n list will be notified
and if any translator lacks permissions we will reassign them for the
right languages.
Note: committers have a different set of permissions. The change affects
only non-committers; most of our new translators are not, or not yet,
committers.
Regards,
Andrea.
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