Comment 10 for bug 376464

Matthew,

Nightmonkey is there as a stop-gap measure, because LP is not as perfect as we would like it to be. In an ideal world, such UI buttons would lead directly to the Launchpad template. That certainly would need a lot more work to work than wiring in a button with a link and two variables.

Making sure that it's possible to really contribute would be easy - just change the permission of ddtp-ubuntu from restricted to open. This would mean also some extra work to make sure updates are pushed out in a timely manner to make sure nothing "bad"[0] sticks there for a long time.

You are also right that the ubuntu.hu domain is not really reliable at large - for example, even I don't know the owner, it's a miracle that we are still afloat :). It is possible however to run an own copy of it, if Infrastructure is willing to host that terrible spaghetti code (its author said something like this!).

[0] For example, Facebooks translation is entirely crowdsourced and there is no "native QA team" to check the new translations before they go live. A Hungarian entrepreneur thus made his company "advertised" on the login page of Facebook - for a few hours until the "translation" was noticed and reverted. Daily bzr exports, nor "when mvo has time to push them live" are clearly not the desirable update frequency needed for blindly trusting the community.