[translations] RFC: moving contrib translations into their own projects

[Derek Wright]

please see http://drupal.org/node/105986#comment-172684

this would solve the following problems:

1) needing to provide access control for translations separate from  
the contrib module code.

2) allowing translations to be tagged, released and packaged  
independently of the corresponding contrib code.  so, when a popular  
module (e.g. views, events, etc) finally ships its 5.x-1.0 version,  
you can decide when to release the XY-views-5.x-1.0 translation (to  
language 'XY') whenever it's ready.  right now, there's little or no  
coordination between module developers and translators, so the .po  
files that get released along with the contrib are almost always  
going to be out of date and incomplete.

3) most contrib users don't care about all the translations for a  
given module.  however, people trying to use another language  
interface on their site might be interested to know all the contribs  
that have been translated to a that language.  currently, there's no  
way to search for this.

my proposal linked above addresses all 3.

please comment there:

http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/105986

thanks,
-derek (dww)