Re: News from DDTSS and request for feedback

Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:08:42 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
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Hi Thomas,

Maybe you already talked about that, but is there an issue for users 
creating account with gmail address?

Sometimes we receive question about users haven't received email 
confirmation for gmail address.

Best regards.



Em 01/03/2024 09:44, Thomas Vincent escreveu:
> Hello!
> 
> I wanted to share with you that DDTSS, the service allowing us to 
> translate package descriptions, recently got two updates that made its 
> main page load 2 to 3 seconds faster.
> 
> Although I intend to keep working on the internals of DDTSS to provide 
> it a long overdue rejuvenation, I'd also like to improve the user 
> experience of our brave DDTSS translators.
> Here are some ideas off the top of my head that I'd like to address:
> * the Italian team has fine scripts that could benefit everybody if they
>    were directly provided by DDTSS
> * DDTSS remains super slow for a few teams who prefer fetching thousands
>    of descriptions
> * it's not easy to run DDTSS locally, which hinders code contributions
> * if you try to translate during the 'night' (european time), then DDTSS
>    becomes excruciatingly slow because it's when the daily update script
>    is run. This makes me feel bad for our Brazilian friends, for instance
> * we should use Salsa as a way to authenticate users instead of DDTSS'
>    legacy homemade solution
> 
> But I'm probably blindsided by my own experience with DDTSS. This is why 
> I'd love to have your feedback about what is OK and what should be 
> improved.
> If you have anything to say, please answer this message (on or off 
> list), ping us on IRC (#ddtp) or open an issue on [Salsa].
> 
> Thomas
> 
> [Salsa]: https://salsa.debian.org/l10n-team/ddtp/-/issues

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