Translations open for everybody

[Daniel Nylander]

Translations are opened for everyone.

Yes, this is good thing but it also allows everyone (including them who are not skilled linguists) to contribute.
I have spent numerous hours reviewing the Swedish translation and changed many of the translated strings (due to poor language, spelling issues, bad grammar, you name it).

Limit the translations to only approved teams in the Launchpad Translators Group.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

The way I see it, it's working perfectly. Community members submit translations, other community members verify and fix the poorly done ones. At the very least, you *have* a Swedish translation in place. Over time other members such as yourself will fix incorrect or poor translations and that Swedish translation will become quite robust.

[Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny)]

OTOH, other community members with boor language skills will override the reviewed strings or translate in a way inconsistent with the rest of translations, and there is no way to prevent this. Launchpad allows non-members to suggest translations and then team members can review and accept such translations, with the benefit that no unrevised translation will slip in. Having open translations is like having an open VC repository where every one can commit code to your project without review, I've never heard of such a policy and can't see how translation is different than code here (knowing that bad translation *can* crash applications, this isn't uncommon)

[Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny)]

So I suggest changing the translation permission from open to structured.