Re: DDTP-Links on CDD tasks web pages

["Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> The problem is I also would like to enable
> users to fix broken translation but the link does not give a reasonable
> result for just translated descriptions but
>
>   All descriptions for package biomode already translated

What, in your opinion, would be a reasonable result?

> But I know that there is a way to force fetching the translation if you
> are in the main screen.  I just tried the wild guess to add "&force=1" to
>
>   http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/${lang}/fetch?package=${pkg}

This works, but as you can check in the archives, has a number of
problems. The most annoying is that just by clicking a link the user
will add a package to the list of stuff to do and if the user doesn't
actually translate it then it increases the load of the real
translators working on that language. This you identified.

Add that these links will be followed by spiders and I can imagine you
can see the possible difficulties.

I'm not sure we really have a good way to deal with this. Perhaps the
easiest is on the page that says "already done" add a button saying "i
know but I want to fix it", just to create an extra layer of
protection.

Any other ideas?
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