[translations] updating translations: how valuable is user data after all?

[Gabor Hojtsy]

Alexandre Racine wrote:
> Whatever the answer is, it is clear to me that the user should have the 
> choice to have a default value. Either overwrite all the time or not. 
> This should be an option in the locale module or something similar.

Unfortunately we can't provide this option before the upgrade actually 
happens, because you cannot access the Drupal 6 site with a Drupal 5 
codebase behind it.

> If everything is controlled by the website drupal.org 
> <http://drupal.org>, it would be interesting to have some kind of 
> Rosetta (https://launchpad.net/rosetta ) online to translate everything. 
> I am not saying that Rosetta is perfect here, but online 
> user-base-revision translations is the way to go if Drupal software just 
> downloads everything from the website.

*You* will download the packages, not the Drupal software. (Anyway, a 
web based translation interface is in the plans, but it has no 
connection whatsoever to Drupal 6 features).

Gabor