Re: Translation status robot (again?)

Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi again,

Am 27. Juli 2024 09:43:07 MESZ schrieb "Camaleón" <[email protected]>:
>El 2024-07-26 a las 23:51 +0200, Holger Wansing escribió:
>> Long story short:
>> the repeating complaining about "Translation status page not updated (again)" 
>> and similar may look as an issue at the first glance, but as far as I can see, 
>> there is no problem currently.
>> It's just that the system is working diffently compared to how people think
>> it does.
>> 
>> There is room for optimization probably, but the status quo is working as
>> intended.
>
>I beg to differ.
>
>These pages (not just for «es» but other languages)
>
>https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/es
>
>Need to reflect the CURRENT and REAL status of PO files when a translator
>interacts with the robot.

Is it really necessary, that this is *all* visible on *one* page? I guess no.
It would be fine, but not strictly needed.

>So, for multispeech file, the one I'm complaining about, this must 
>reflect a grey table row color and:
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>multispeech 0% (0t;0f;16u)			bts	Camaleón	2024-07-21 06:36:01	1076657
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>But currently it is displayed as «Hey, no one is in care  of this file, 
>is not translated... you can go ahead and translate it into Spansish» 
>which, being this page the main source for translator's coordination, 
>I guess is not the desired/expected message :-/

All the information is there, but divided on two pages.

>I mean, I see no difference between multispeech and evqueue-core, for 
>instance. The former is WRONGLY displayed, while the latter is RIGHT.
>
>Why?
>
>OTOH, the multispeech Spanish translated file should be -by now- 
>uploaded into unstable, as the rest of the languages which are already there:
>
>https://i18n.debian.org/material/po/unstable/main/m/multispeech/debian/po/
>
>Finally, (I don't think so but) if NOW it is unnecessary/useless sending
>commands to the robot to set the status of po-debconf PO files, just 
>tell and I will stop doing so. 
>
>Instructing the robot about the status of files takes MUCH valuable time
>for translators who could be spent in performing another tasks.

The feeding of the robot is not useless; the information is processed and
shown on the robot status pages.

Of course, everyone is free to implement any changings they see
fit. But that's out of my skills.


Holger



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