[Debian-l10n-devel] some questions about the new ddtts

[Michael Bramer]

On 09/11/2011 06:09 PM, Martijn van O wrote:
> On 11 September 2011 00:06, Michael Bramer<grisu at debian.org>  wrote:
>>>> 3.) lock of descriptions
>>>> ------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Add a 'STATE_PENDING_LOCK' state in class PendingTranslation to lock a
>>>> translation (from the coordinator)
>>>
>>> What would it mean to "lock" a translation. That nobody can do
>>> anything until unlocked. No review,no changes, nothing? But still
>>> allow comments? I assume it's to allow discussion about some point?
>>
>> Some description are more or less the same... Like XXX and XXX-dbg
>>
>> In this cases it should be usefull for the lang coordinator, to lock
>> XXX-dbg. And unlook it, after the XXX is translated.
>
> Ah, that problem. I was thinking that in the list of pending
> translations there should be a warning that a part of this translation
> is shared with another. Or even more draconian, don't allow a
> translation to be fetched if it shares a part with another pending
> translation.
>
> But this brings me back to my question: locked means not allowed to
> make any changes, but still allow comments?

lock = no changes for the translation

>>>> 4.) get/store the 'advisors' of a translation
>>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>>
>> If the solution with the messag system is good enough for you, this
>> is now only a
>>   SELECT for_description from messages_tb where from_user='grisu42';
>> and you get all description, if you add a comment or make some work
>> with it.
>
> Right, so you can simply flag all the descriptions where the current
> user has done something with before.

see
http://ddtp.debian.net/screenshots/ddtp-new-web-20110911-involved-red-star.png

:-)

Gruss
Grisu