Comment 10 for bug 337313

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Данило Шеган <email address hidden> wrote:
> The thing is that in majority of cases, packagers don't really bother
> with translations at all, and just deliver what is in the upstream
> tarball after a POT is generated. For instance, Ubuntu has several
> packagers which upload a lot of packages, and they get their package
> upload karma (which is actually 10 or 5 or 1, depending on the type, and
> not 5000) and POT upload karma (1-10 points, depending on the number of
> packages uploaded).

Ok, apologies if I've got the 5000 points wrong - I reviewed my own
karma, and the Soyuz karma appears to have gone up in blocks of 5000 -
https://launchpad.net/~mdke/+karma

> Some people provide hundreds of POTs every few weeks through package
> uploads, which means that for a translator to be comparable to them,
> he'd have to provide same number of actual translations. I believe
> that's disproportionate as well.

Agreed. Ideally the karma system would recognise what has actually
changed in an uploaded pot template and limit the karma assigned to
those strings.

> Of course, this would be unfair to people (like you) who do their
> "published" imports manually, but at the moment, there is no way for us
> to make a distinction, so we can't fix that in an easy way.

Well, we import through package uploads too, so no problem there.