On Wo, 2008-12-24 at 16:08 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Samuel Murray (Groenkloof) wrote: > > G'day everyone > > > > I've noticed that quite a few users on the Pootle server > > pootle.locamotion.org have probably selected all languages in their > > profiles. I can only guess why -- perhaps they did not understand the > > field or perhaps they did so accidentally. Either way, I think there is > > no reason why a translator should choose more than, say, 10 languages on > > his profile page. So I suggest that the number he can select, should > > somehow be limited. What is your opinion? > > Speaking only for myself as a translation coordinator. Using Pootle > (v1.1/v1.2) I found it vital that to have all languages in my profile. > Without it Pootle offered me no access to the language privileges. Which > in turn was needed to assign access to the actual translators, and to > manage those languages .po files once translated. > > Maybe this can be fixed in the Django auth re-write and have langauges > inherit access from higher things like project. So a 'project admin' > always have access to their projects data without the need for such foolery. > > AYJ
Amos, are you a site admin on this server? That should give you access to just about everything. I agree that the issue is perhaps rather that we should make admin easier rather than encouraging people to select all languages. That said, I have a suspicion people might just select things anyway. Perhaps we can solve this with a better GUI prompt? "Select the languages into which you will be translating" or "Select the language projects in which you will be active" - something like that. I'm not sure we'll be able to get people to always do the correct thing here. Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/re-bringing-all-translation-management-tools-together ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
