"Translate now" now locks the translation page

[calmansi]

Good morning,

I am new in this group, which I joined because this morning, I noticed
that when I choose the "translate now!" option in the widget that
opens when I click on a language in
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/universalsubtitles/resource/locale-en-LC_MESSAGES-django-po_0/
, the translation page gets locked by me for 48 hours.

This is a problem, because as users are not warned of the locking
effect of "translate now!", they are not likely to unlock the
translating page when they are done. They might even re-lock it every
time they go translate something there.

Is this something of that particular universal subtitles project, or
is it something general?

Best

Claude Almansi

[Dimitris Glezos]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:05 PM, calmansi <claude....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new in this group, which I joined because this morning, I noticed
> that when I choose the "translate now!" option in the widget that

> opens when I click on a language in <...>

> , the translation page gets locked by me for 48 hours.
>
> This is a problem, because as users are not warned of the locking
> effect of "translate now!", they are not likely to unlock the
> translating page when they are done. They might even re-lock it every
> time they go translate something there.
>
> Is this something of that particular universal subtitles project, or
> is it something general?

This is a feature to help translators avoid overwriting each other's
work. We can mention that the resource is now locked in the message
box when the Web Editor opens up, and that people should use "Save and
Exit" which unlocks the resource too.

-d

--
Dimitris Glezos

Transifex: The Multilingual Publishing Revolution
http://www.transifex.net/ -- http://www.indifex.com/

[Claude Almansi]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dimitris Glezos <gle...@indifex.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:05 PM, calmansi <claude....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am new in this group, which I joined because this morning, I noticed
>> that when I choose the "translate now!" option in the widget that
>> opens when I click on a language in <...>
>> , the translation page gets locked by me for 48 hours.
>>
>> This is a problem, because as users are not warned of the locking
>> effect of "translate now!", they are not likely to unlock the
>> translating page when they are done. They might even re-lock it every
>> time they go translate something there.
>>
>> Is this something of that particular universal subtitles project, or
>> is it something general?
>
> This is a feature to help translators avoid overwriting each other's
> work. We can mention that the resource is now locked in the message
> box when the Web Editor opens up, and that people should use "Save and
> Exit" which unlocks the resource too.

That would be great, Dimitris, thanks!

Claude