-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11-03-08 10:30 AM, Deryck Hodge wrote: > I'm wondering if we're not overstating the danger here. Maybe not, > but let's think this through fully first. > > In order to overwrite translations, we need a packaging link + > translations enabled upstream + a potemplate with the same name on > both sides. Given this, are we really in much danger? Or am I > misunderstanding how this works or the danger?
We are already presuming the packaging link. And our UI will encourage enabling translations. Can the filenames be the same? Yes. AIUI, there are two main cases: 1. the template is named "messages.pot". This is often the case for projects that have just started using translations. 2. a package and project $foo could have different software, but both contain $foo.pot. AIUI, using the name $foo.pot is a best practise. In this case, I believe Launchpad would *recommend* creating the bogus packaging link. I don't want to overstate the danger. I think that bogus packagings will waste cycles, and can lose origin information, but I don't see us losing anything critical. We will certainly not lose any approved translations on either side. > I recognize people set bad links regularly, but do we really think > these 3 conditions will likely be set incorrectly as well? So "people set bad links regularly" means we have the first part "packaging link", regularly. The second part "translations enabled upstream" should be common if the feature we're working on is successful. In the absence of hard data, the last part, "a potemplate with the same name on both sides" seems rare, but not so rare that we should ignore it. If necessary, we could query the database to find out more. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk12WYYACgkQ0F+nu1YWqI1aHwCePP+yGI9h8L9z7TLjhFD4AZml VtEAnRL3+KHbjrUnnUGEvX3UDlAP5VnQ =+G3I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
