ubuntu-translators are not able to bulk-export templates

Bug #425578 reported by Gabor Kelemen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
Ubuntu Translations
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Members of ubuntu-translators group should be able to batch export templates, like those in ubuntu-docs.

(10.26.11) kelemengabor: Hi all, does anyone know, how could I export all the Hungarian templates of ubuntu-docs?
(10.26.38) kelemengabor: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/ubuntu-docs - from this page, is this possible?
(10.45.04) Guest54570 ezentúl danilos néven szerepel
(10.46.29) danilos: kelemengabor: unfortunately not, because we had people randomly using "export all translations" on many different source packages and saturating our export queue with requests; it's now limited only to Ubuntu packagers, but I can request a full export for you if you want me to
(10.51.00) kelemengabor: danilos: thanks for the explanation. The problem is that I'd need to do this not only once... we have http://sugo.ubuntu.hu/ (clone of help.u.c) and I'd like to update it's content at least once a month, preferably without human interaction
(10.52.29) danilos: kelemengabor: unfortunately, that'd not be possible until we figure out a solution; perhaps we should allow members of the ubuntu translation group the same

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

Members of ~ubuntu-dev should also be granted access to this. I need the access to download translations for ubuntu-docs and gnome-user-docs, and currently can't do this, despite being maintainer of those packages and member of ~ubuntu-dev. Let me know if a separate bug is required.

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

A better way to do this (without introducing a new celebrity) is to just extend Distribution.uploaders to take into account all ArchivePermissions, not just those for a component. There is only one other user of that property (approving bug nominations without a package), and there is no problem with relaxing that similarly.

Changed in rosetta:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

Another way to address this would be to permit a reasonable quota on exports and allow anyone to do it again.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

However, its not currently in our roadmap. If someone wants to work on it, we'll be happy to mentor them.

summary: - ubuntu-translators should be able to batch-request templates
+ ubuntu-translators are not able to bulk-export templates
Changed in launchpad:
importance: High → Low
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