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[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Al 10/05/12 10:00, En/na Jeroen Vermeulen ha escrit:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at a question¹ from a user whose project uses the Launchpad
> Translation Group for translation, but who gets unwanted translations
> for “redundant” language variants such as es_MX and en_CA.  The project
> uses Structured permissions, so anyone can add these translations.
> 
> That made me wonder: should this be solved within the translation group?
>  Right now a translation group decides which languages it can and cannot
> manage translations for, but maybe it should also be responsible for
> identifying a third set: languages that it thinks are redundant and
> should not have translations.  It would decide things like “our Spanish
> translations also cover Mexico, so if you let us manage your
> translations, there is no es_MX.”  And it could enforce those decisions
> by selecting an empty “translation team” for those languages.
> 
> There are drawbacks:
> 
>  - A project with Restricted permissions will suddenly seem to accept
> suggestions for these languages.
> 
> But if right now we're not seeing good, complete translations for these
> unwanted languages, that suggests that there won't be a lot of
> disappointment about this either.  We could use a dummy translation team
> with a name like “Nobody — Do Not Translate.”
> 
>  - If any Structured project does make use of its ability to translate
> these languages without the translation group, it loses that ability.
> 
> Do we know of this happening anywhere?
> 
> Would love to hear your opinion.
> 
> 
> Jeroen
> —
> ¹) That user question:
>     https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/196237
> 

Heya Jeroen,

Sorry for not having replied earlier, just got back from UDS, and thanks
for bringing this up!

My feeling is that we haven't seen much of this happening to justify a
change in the current permissions. In the current case, if the project
owner wants to have control over which translations go into their
software, they should use 'Restricted' and choose an appropriate
translations group or create their own.

I'd much rather see any development efforts in LP Translations put into
existing bugs that are much more critical.

Cheers,
David.

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David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
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