[Debian-l10n-devel] Bug#700678: Please reenable the DDTP email interface

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

Package: debian-i18n
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org


Dear Masters of Infrastructure,

please reenable the DDTP email interface. I'm convinced that this will help
DDTP translation teams with little manpower (all except the Italian and 
Danish
ones).

What can be read on the web regarding DDTP (1) seems not to be true at 
present.

Copied from (1):


   Proofreading and error fixing
     Only the DDTSS currently implements a review mode and only sends those
     translations to the DDTP which passed a fixed number of proofreads.

     Once you notice common typos or other easy to correct errors such as
     encoding problems, it is possible to bypass any review process and 
to fix
     this for all packages at once using a script. It is suggested that only
     one trusted translation coordinator collects all these issues and 
applies
     the script.

     Since the proofreading can take a long time (especially if only minor
     issues are fixed all the time), it may be an option to just ignore 
simple
     typos and inconsistencies during the review and to start a check 
for all
     of these (hopefully collected) issues later. This speeds up the 
review and
     allows to apply these corrections later in all descriptions.


At present I'm not aware of means to handle these trivial tasks. I would
appreciate very much to get back the tool that I used a lot in the past.

Kind regards,
     Martin

1: http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ddtp