David Planella wrote:
I have long wanted to report a bug on this, but I haven't managed yet. I completely agree with Sebastian. I would have no problem in having someone in the translation credits even if they have contributed with a single string (although here I also see room for discussion), but I find it plainly wrong that just anyone who makes a suggestion, even if it is not approved, gets listed in the credits. I have often seen suggestions that are completely wrong, or even in another language, and I do not find it fair that those users get listed in the credits along with people who have put a lot of effort in translating a complete package and reviewing it.
I don't think anyone disagrees with any of this. The more interesting question is _how_ we can do better. Allow me to explain.
Launchpad can track direct acceptance of suggestions, but there's no perfect way of telling which contributions were used _in some way_: a dyslexic translator may submit great suggestions that all have typos, or there may be changes in non-breaking spaces, or the client's OS may produce incorrect substitutes for language-specific characters, or a reviewer may combine the first half of one suggestion with the second half of another. Launchpad won't know if text is snipped and pasted on the client system. If we had plenty of time and unlimited performance we could try to compare text, but even then it's ultimately guesswork.
So nothing we can do will ever be _completely_ fair. Of course we are interested in a better approximation, as long as implementing it doesn't complicate or slow down the application, and as long as it improves things enough to justify the engineering time.
Jeroen
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