Comment 8 for bug 198305

First of all, thank you two for your quick response.

@Carlos

Thank you very much for your explanation.
It clarifies things.

@Matthew
I think you point out exactly the problem.
I contacted two distinct people (4 projects) asking them to structure
translation permission because of bad quality translations.

They did it and they have been even grateful to know this.
They wasn't aware about this problem.

Probably it would be nice to explain better the effects of open
translation and maybe suggest to structurate it.

(I have been too drastic using "mandatory" in my bug report, I'm sorry
about this.)

2008/3/5, Carlos Perelló Marín <email address hidden>:
> I think you are confused with how Launchpad works. For the example you
> used, encfs is not available to be translated in Ubuntu because is a
> package from Universe, and as you can see at
> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/encfs we don't
> offer anything to be translated. In the other hand, the project encfs,
> choose to use Launchpad to handle its translations and you can find it
> from https://translations.launchpad.net/encfs .
>
> Those are two different URLs and two different contexts. Ubuntu doesn't
> use directly anything from the second URL, those translations are under
> maintainer's control that will end in their released tarballs. Once they
> release a new encfs version, Ubuntu packages it and then, those
> translations are used, but is the same procedure even if encfs doesn't
> use Launchpad at all. That's why we cannot force any translation mode
> for them, Launchpad is not only about Ubuntu, Ubuntu is just another
> project using Launchpad, a huge one, but still just another project.
>
> I'm not sure whether this clarifies the issue for you. If it's clear
> enough now, could you give us some input about what confused you to
> believe that both were tied so much? If it's not clear enough, just tell
> us it and we will try to explain it better.
>
>
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> Several projects have open translations in launchpad and this cause very bad translation quality.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198305
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