Comment 8 for bug 376464

I like this idea in theory. But I see a couple of big issues to address before it could appear in client software.

First, it's not clear to me how the links would be satisfying for most of the people who were interested. For example, if I go to <http://nightmonkey.ubuntu.hu/> right now it links to one description, deja-dup in French. If I click "Translated" I end up at <https://translations.launchpad.net/ddtp-ubuntu/raring/+pots/ddtp-ubuntu-main/fr/857/+translate>, which says "This template can be translated only by its managers." And that's when I'm already logged in with a Launchpad account! If someone didn't have a Launchpad account, they might be misled into thinking that getting one would make any difference, and end up frustrated. So you need some way of making sure that every "Translate this description" link takes you to a place where you can actually suggest a translation.

Second, we would need to have the DDTP server -- or at least a proxy to it -- on ubuntu.com. I'm sure the ubuntu.hu domain owner is a wonderful person, but if they lose interest or forget to renew the domain, a few months later, millions of Ubuntu users would be running software that links to a squatted domain or worse. We already do this for screenshots.ubuntu.com, which is a caching proxy server just in case screenshots.debian.net goes away.