Hi,

> Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wrote:
> We care very much about upstream.

It's not my impression either that you care a bit about upstream. My 
impression is more like "screw the upstream, we want to play in our own 
playground". At least Rosetta should have big flashing red warnings that 
all the translations will be lost if the translator does not send it to 
the upstream.

>> They
>> don't care that the string will be lost as soon as they update KDE - they
>> always have translations at least as good as upstream.
>
> You are free and infact encouraged to take translations from Rosetta
> and import them into KDE.

It should be the resoponsibility of Rosetta to push translations to the 
upstream (through the real translation teams). Not responsibility of the 
upstream to chase all million different distros if they have their own 
proprietary tools. Currently it might be only Rosetta, but what if other 
distros would use same kind of tools. Everything would be a huge mess, 
different distro users translating same things many times over, forked 
translations, big problems to upstream trying to merge the whole mess etc.

In my opinion Rosetta does not understand the translation process. It's 
not about one distro that is the center of the world and everyone should 
pull from there, it's about all platforms equally.

--Kim