Pootle/AdministrationQuickStart

This thing is a work in progress, please feel free to work upon it, and improve it

Pootle administrators have extended privileges over normal translators. They can grant or revoke permissions for normal Pootle registered users on a project wide basis, and can also add other administrators for their particular project. Note that administrators are project + language specific, which means XO Core, Spanish can have a totally different set of administrators and privileged users when compared to XO Bundled, Spanish.

The typical roles of an administrator

Administrators have a few well defined responsibilities. They are

* User management
* Translation review
* Approval of suggestions (optional)
* Committing of translations

User Management

TBD

Translation Review

Before the administrator commits a particular file, she must make sure that the translations are OK. There are several way to do this, one of them would be

* To download the PO files, and go through it
* To run 'msgfmt --check' to ensure that the file is formatted correctly.