Re: Unauthorized translation changes in dconf-editor

[Arnaud Bonatti <arnaud bonatti gmail com>]

Hi Claude Paroz, hi Ask Hjorth Larsen,

2019-03-18 20:35 UTC+01:00, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:02 AM, Arnaud Bonatti
> > <arnaud bonatti gmail com> wrote:
> ...
> > > If a translation contains a web link to what is currently an
> > > hypnotherapist website, it’s my role to remove that link before it
> > > hits the stable release. Even if I didn’t had the time to join the
> > > translator or its team to fix it in l10n. (Yes, it’s a true story. Not
> > > a big issue, but a real life one.)
>
> However the example above is a typical example whete it would be crucial
> that gnome-i18n is aware of the issue, because the person that committed
> that is either malicious and his account should immediately be blocked,
> or his account has been hacked and he should be aware of that.

Of course, when I discovered that thing, I imagined various scenarii
like these; but that’s clearly not the case; that’s just a domain name
of a translation team that has been abandonned, and reused for
something else. The link is a broken link, so it’s not a direct
promotion (hopefully!), it’s just pointing to an inappropriate
website.

2019-03-18 21:14 UTC+01:00, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>:
> I agree with this - also, reporting the smaller errors to the
> translation teams could mean that they are corrected elsewhere, as
> they are likely repeated in the 100+ GNOME modules.  I wonder if that
> link is found in multiple modules?

Well, if that problem is/was on my priorities of the week, that’s the
reason… I think most GNOME applications have this link in their About
dialog. So if it’s not a big issue in itsefl, it would be great to fix
it, and everywhere.

So, what’s the problem? well, dconf-editor’s Bulgarian translation
po/bg.po contains:
msgid "translator-credits"
msgstr ""
"Александър Шопов <ash kambanaria org>\n"
"\n"
"Проектът за превод на GNOME има нужда от подкрепа.\n"
"Научете повече за нас на <a href=\"http://gnome.cult.bg\";>http://gnome.cult.";
"bg</a>\n"
"Докладвайте за грешки на <a href=\"http://gnome.cult.bg/bugs\";>http://gnome.";
"cult.bg/bugs</a>"

That text is the one displayed in the About dialog for crediting
translators, but people on that list must know that. :·) The subdomain
http://gnome.cult.bg is broken, hopefully, that’s why it’s clearly not
malicious; but the domain http://cult.bg is… surprising.

As we’re here, if someone would like to take care of contacting the
correct people to fix this issue, that would be really appreciated.
:·)

Regards,
Arnaud

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