The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.It'd be good to have a separate permission to import translations. Different translators may import same set of po files multiple times, which end up with tons of duplicate suggestions. While this patch ( http://drupal.org/node/219807 ) may be part of a solution, but it'd still be good to have more control to only allow trusted translators import large amount of translations.
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Comment #1
gábor hojtsyI'd love to put an end to duplicate suggestion imports. Otherwise people might prefer to work with their desktop tools, so let them do it that way IMHO. I have seen people being a lot more productive on simple .po text file editing and then importing them back.
Comment #2
dami commentedMore thoughts:
1. It also prevents bad/incorrect po files being imported. I think I have seen cases where translators imported incorrect translations from other languages.
2. Without Import control, and given our project is 95% complete, we are planning to block all users from 'submit suggestions' , except for few trusted translators. This is to prevent our database flooded by unscrupulous user importing duplicate/low-quality/bad translations.
Yes, you are right, I'd say most of our experienced translators actually still prefer working on gettext editor. While l10n server does help a lot by encouraging and introducing new contributors to participate. Cheers!
Comment #3
gábor hojtsyAdded new "import gettext files" permission in http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=148446 The permission name is quite generic since whether translations or suggestions only are allowed is dependent on the remaining permissions. So just this permission cannot tell whether translations or suggestions are allowed.
Comment #4
Anonymous (not verified) commentedAutomatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.