Launchpad itself

Unofficial translators can't make suggestions with multiple lines (?)

Bug #1071 reported by Markus Mayr
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Carlos Perelló Marín

Bug Description

I am an unofficial translator and therefore I am only allowed to make suggestions. However, I can not make suggestions to strings that have more than one line.

I am an unofficial translator and therefore I am only allowed to make suggestions. However, I can not make suggestions to strings that have more than one line. If I write something into these textareas and hit the Save & Continue-Button, nothing happens.
But I am able to make suggestions concerning strings with only one line.

I've tried it when making suggestions concerning quickguide (ubuntu-docs). I tried to translate another package as well to see if it is a problem with the quickguide-package, but it did not work when trying to suggest something concerning ssed, as well.

Hopefully it is not my fault, but I simply have no idea what I could have done wrong.

See original description
Christian Reis (kiko)
description: updated
summary: - I am an inofficial translator and therefore I am only allowed to make
- suggestions
+ I am an unofficial translator and therefore I am only allowed to make
+ suggestions. However, I can not make suggestions to strings that have
+ more than one line.
Changed in rosetta:
assignee: nobody → carlos
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Linnea Björk Timm (ladyfrost) wrote :

I have the same problem, being an inofficial translator. I realized this when I had to suggest translations to the same string over and over again, and it never got registered.

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Jure (juremes) wrote :

The same problem here. Annoying & frustrating.

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Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos) wrote :

This bug depends on the implementation of:

https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/TranslationReview

and

https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/PoMsgSetPage

They are on the top of my queue after language packs so I should start with them this week (perhaps tomorrow).

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

This is an interesting bug, because the reporter's perception isn't actually correct :-) The translations are actually being stored and can be used; however, there is a display issue. If 5 people suggest translations to multi-line fields with 5 lines, then it's a lot of long textboxes to display, disrupting the flow of the form.

The proper solution to this is to have a page for displaying all translations for a single message. However, Mark recommended an interim fix which would display in the main translation form only the /last/ suggestion posted, and say "N additional suggestions posted". We're going ahead with this tomorrow to allow people to enjoy submitting translations in the short term, rather than waiting for the message view to be implemented.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Can people confirm that the workaround we implemented is working for them?

Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)
Changed in rosetta:
status: New → Fixed
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