On Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 21:18, Kreuvf wrote: > And please don't get me wrong: I am deeply convinced that translations can > only > be good (aka consistent) as long as there is one maintainer. I've already been > through this "everybody can edit translations like stupid" shit at Launchpad > (translation suggestions wouldn't be any better). It just did not work out > (apart from the drawbacks of Launchpad): People would just drop in, translate > or > change some strings (quality doesn't increase necessarily...) and then you may > never hear from them again. And in the end the maintainer will just go with > the > old version. The only thing that causes is more management overhead, so much > more that it cannot be justified by the increase in translation quality (if > any).
Well, it is an experiment currently, to see what it can do. From the looks of it, we can assign a maintainer to each language, who can then add others to work together, and commit stuff. So my management overhead decreases significantly, since I just have to add one person per language, who can then work mostly autonomically. > > You mean the "one person getting more and more annoyed because people can't > > read and nobody else cares" model? > Please explain this allusion, because I do not get it. People making the same mistakes again and again, like wrong encoding, starting from another translation, getting the tokens wrong... despite there being a wiki page that (hopefully) explains all that. I'm bad at telling people the same things over and over (well, I can do that, if you don't care about the tone...), and transifex should check at least some of the things automatically. > > It should only ever touch files in po/. As long as it does, I'll trust it. > Of course you cannot trust it anymore, when something different than a file in > /po is touched, but that does not give any reason for why to trust it at all. Transifex.net is the main showcase product of Indifex.com. They have a monetary interest in not having it get compromised. > Interesting questions: What would be if transifex has been around for a year > and > people are more or less using it and then such an incident happens? Would you > vote for the immediate and permanent ban of transifex? Revoke commit access immediately. If if gets enabled again depends on how they handle it. _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
