Данило Шеган wrote:
> At the moment, we are trying to make it clear that people
> should submit their translations upstream manually.

I'll express my feeling as an Ubuntu and Launchpad user. I use gcc and
I've remarked that its translation in French isn't completed. So I go to
Launchpad to see how I could hep to complete the translation. I go to
this page:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/gcc-4.3

and I click on the "How you can help" link. It's written:

"Are you fluent in a language other than English? If so, you can
contribute to gcc-4.3 in Ubuntu Intrepid by translating it with
Launchpad’s Translations software. You can translate as much as you
like, whenever you like — all you need is a Web browser.

To start, get a Launchpad account if you don’t already have one. Then
choose a language below, and start translating. It’s that easy."

Ok. I have a Launchpad account and a Web browser. ;) It’s that easy.

There are 4990 untranslated strings for the template "gcc-4.3", but if
we click on this template, we see lots of strings already translated but
not used in gcc-4.3. It's very discouraging and demoralizing.

I encounter this problem with many softwares. timer-applet has strings
translated in French on Launchpad, but not used. See my bug 296491.
gcolor2 was fully translated in French on Ubuntu 8.04, but it is not
translated at all on Ubuntu 8.10. See my bug 302630. gutenprint has a
lot of strings that are already translated in French on Launchpad but
not used. See my bug 303273.

I think that there's a big problem with the translations' management on
Launchpad. As a Launchpad user, I would like to feel that my
participation is useful. In concrete terms, how can we merge rapidly
gcc-4.0, gcc-4.1, gcc-4.2 and gcc-4.3 translations to be able to
continue the translation in good conditions?

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A lot of previous gcc translations aren't used in gcc-4.3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303559
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