Suggestion for broken translation reportings

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The number of new Hebrew translators (Including candidates) for the
>> > Hebrew
>> > translation is very low, about 1 candidate every 3 or 4 months (most of
>> > them
>> > are not accepted since we are trying to keep on consistency and
>> > quality).
>> > On the other hand I get many correction suggestions from people who
>> > don't
>> > have a launchpad account.
>> > Sorry if I hurt your feelings Ask but from my point of view the current
>> > functionality is useless comparing to the one I suggested.
>> > We can combine them but suggesting a correction really is a necessary
>> > function.
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Yaron Shahrabani
>>
>> I think most of our prospective translators come from the "translate
>> this application" button in some way.  That being said, it's useful if
>> people can easily report bugs.  I'm not "affiliated" with the
>> "translate this application" button and don't take offense if someone
>> says it's useless, but I do disagree.
>
> As long as you are not offended everything is just fine ☺
> Let me ask you some relevant questions:
> Do you believe the Translate this application menu item is satisfactory?

Yeah, I think it's a significant source of new translators.

> Don't you think this menu item can be much more useful?

Things can probably be improved, but it gets the job done.

> Would you like to see the discussed feature alongside the current
> functionality?

Sure, if someone has time to implement it.  Reporting bugs is often a
bottleneck: People are willing to report them, but not to spend time
creating accounts, figuring out where and how and so on.  But also,
people who are taking over the bug reports have to spend time sorting
and redirecting/verifying them.  An easy "one-click" bug function
would probably help a lot with that.

> Do you have any other suggestion for improvement?
> Kind regards,
> Yaron Shahrabani.

Hmmm.  Not really.

Regards
Ask