Re: please disable DDTSS for German!
Gerfried Fuchs schrieb am Wednesday, den 10. February 2010:
Hi,
> Please disable the DDTS for German! This request might sound like an
> overreaction but things don't improve and only get worse. There is no
> way to know who translated something, leave them hints in any way and
> totally idiotic parts are "proofread" within the moment often enough.
>
> Sorry, this is getting more than annoying. The current example that got
> me up is this:
> <http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/sup>
>
> A long description that contains only a dot? WTF?
>
> Given that there is no way to know who "translated" this and did
> "proofread" it, given that there is no way to either get a hint through
> to those people that either intentionally or out of plain stupidity di
> so I request to block German from the DDTSS as I have the hope that the
> mail interface to DDTP still works and would make such things stop.
>
> This is so wrong and hurts and is hurtful to any sort of QA level - and
> I guess most of you know that I already lost my hope that things will
> actually improve in the German translation team (and that I'm not the
> only one with that), but this is just over-the-top once again.
Since the quality of many translations is very embarrassing I have to agree
here. Without any real QA (the whole system is totally anonymous which is
very annoying) the system is not really usable.
Alex
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