Re: News from DDTSS and request for feedback

Thomas Vincent <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Mar 2025 00:15:26 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi!

Le 03/03/2025 à 19:08, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana a écrit :
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Maybe you already talked about that, but is there an issue for users 
> creating account with gmail address?

I don't remember if we mentioned it somewhere, but yes, there's an issue 
with accounts created using a gmail address. DDTSS sends a confirmation 
e-mail upon account creation that is deemed as spam by Google.

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

Users can contact me directly so I manually activate their account.
Depending on how much time I manage to invest in DDTSS soon, I'll
try to work on one of those three workarounds/solutions:

* add a message when users register to ping me if they don't receive
   their confirmation e-mail in a timely manner
* allow language admins to activate users accounts if they're locked
* work on the branch that has been waiting for months to migrate
   authentication to Salsa's SSO

Any help is welcome. :)

Thomas

> 
> 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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