Request: How we could pay more respect to upstream translation

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Hi,

I am a member of the German translator team.

In the last week before release there was some noise about KDE upstream
string that have been overwritten by some translators in Rosetta. To
avoid this situation in the future I would like to make the following
feature request.

Upstream strings are of a quite high value:

Firstly they are often of a higher quality compared to our Rosetta
translations - regarding level of review and consistency.

Secondly upstream feels disrespected if we change their work without any
communication. Currently we don't even see how much was changed in
Rosetta. The German team has got about 250 members, so quality assurance
is quite a hard business.

So I would like to see a feature in Rosetta, that would allow us to
easily select translations that have been changed in Rosetta. A
corresponding option could be added to the show combobox of the editor.
Furthermore it would be nice to see the percentage of changed upstream
strings in the progress bar or in a statistical table.

At least I would suggest to require a review for changes on upstream
strings.

Regards,

Sebastian