Improving Rosetta's relation with upstream translation teams

Luca Padrin luca at mandarinlogiq.org
Wed Oct 4 20:42:16 BST 2006


Hi
I've seen Jordi's mail to KDE translation teams about improving relations 
between Ubuntu and KDE translators, that cites a wiki In Ubuntu that seems to 
answer also to the discussion had on this topic some time ago in this list.
I'm a member of Ubuntu and KDE Italian Translators Team.

IMHO the crucial problem is that in Rosetta the list of po that are displayed 
for translation aren't clearly identifiable as derived from KDE upstream 
strings or Ubuntu native.

The solution for this problem may be marking differently the upstream 
translations, and making Rosetta show where they derive from.
These po should be accessible to any Ubuntu translator, but only with reading 
permissions and not modifying.
So quality in Ubuntu is preserved because anyone can check these strings and 
send a notification of bug (typos, etc...) to KDE translation team.

When KDE team has fixed this bug, the po should be sent to a special 
repository where it will be uploaded automatically.

A new feature to add to Rosetta's list should be also showing the date of 
upstream for the problems derived by non synchronization of KDE and Ubuntu 
release cycle. 

My 2 cents

Luca



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