Sending translation back

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Christian Rose wrote:

>It would have been even better news if more had been done in order to
>improve interaction with upstreams that do *not* use Rosetta.
>
We're getting pretty close to that. Shortly, we will be importing all of
upstreams translations on a regular basis, so that other people won't
unnecessarily duplicate the work of upstream. This will mean that
distros can keep track of upstream even in cases where upstream is not
working with Rosetta.

Sharing translations back with upstream at the moment is trivial:
upstream can download, at any time, any pofiles from Rosetta that they
want. We cannot commit pofiles directly into other projects CVS without
permission, and we cannot just spam the project translators with rosetta
po files, so making it all available for constant download strikes me as
being a reasonable step. We can also do the work to enable
subscriptions, so that an upstream only has to subscribe once and will
then receive a regular mailing of any po files that they want.

It's very difficult to "improve interaction with people who do not want
to talk to you by email, web or any other medium". If you have any
suggestions as to other ways we could improve interaction with projects
that are not using Rosetta, please let me know.

Mark