On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:48:29PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Maisenbacher Matthias (GS/EMW4) * wrote: > > > set up a Packages file to release it. It also takes power over > > > the desription from the developer; a description could be inaccurate > > > or derogatory and there's nothing a developer could do about it. > > Wich isn't quite true. > > In such a case he would an E-Mail with something like > > > > GET <packagename> <language> > > > > then he changed the wrong parts and would send the translation back. > > Assuming he knows that language. What happens when there's a description > of a certain package of his, saying > > Description: blahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > BlahBlahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah > > While the translation looks like > > Description: blah ;-) > Blah. > > ? > > Addmittedly, someone doing such a thing should get his/her ass kicked, and > it's quite unlikely that something like this will ever happen. But a > developer can not know a certain language, but still roughly understand > the writing. If it's not correct, he needs to be able to have the > translator to redo his/her work. - no translator will make this ... :-) - in future we will have a review process - we can mail notification mails to the package maintainer - we can make a veto from the maintainer Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Earth is flat, pigs can fly, and nuclear power is safe. (Greenpeace)
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