On 17-12-06 04:43, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: > > What about mail interface? Does somebody still using it? > > Do we need it? > > Please don't skip the mail interface. It is very helpful for understaffed > "teams" like the german one (basically me). > > I don't use the mail interface to get new work to translate. I use it for > trivial changes in my point of view. > > Over all, i think that the mail interface is a powerful tool, but dangerous > as well. $(random contributor) has direct access without review. Perhaps the > access to it should be coupled to a DDTP account.
Thanks for the answer. If someone uses it, then I think we should keep it for now. > A nice feature before the move to ddtp2.debian.net was the automatic answer > to submissions. It showed errors in the files submitted and contained a > direct link to the new database entry. At present one has to open the web > interface to check whether the translation made it into the DB and if the > encoding is ok. According to file(1) I send "UTF-8 Unicode English text, > with very long lines". Sometimes I forget to change "Description-de:" to > "Description-de.UTF-8:" and get garbage. The mail digestion routine relys on > this instead of checking the file type of the attachment. > > Beatrice, Joe, Helix84; Martijn: I'm very interested in your opinion. > -- Best regards, Andrey Skvortsov
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