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Directing users to do self-approval of their translation templates

Steps to take

• Look at import queue templates awaiting review

• For any older than 24h, email the maintainer/uploader with instruction on how they can approve them themselves, and mark the corresponding entries as 'Needs Information' (so they don't show up in the list again, making us email them twice)

Background

We have recently switched from approving translation templates for all the projects hosted in Launchpad to letting maintainers do that. In the transitional period, we want to warn users about the fact that they need to approve translations if they've been sitting in the queue for quite some time.

Automatic approval sometimes takes up to a day (depending on the queue backlog), so you should not have to deal with any entries which are more recent than that.

Choosing who to email

Basically, maintainers and project owners can approve translations themselves. If the uploader of the files in question is part of the maintainer team for a project, Danilo suggests contacting them directly (because they are most likely to have a vested interest in getting this through). However, do note that sometimes the listed uploader on the import queue page is the branch owner, if translations are synced from a branch, and this may be a person with no power to approve translations.

Email template

Replace {User} with the user you picked up above, and {project}/{series} with the project/series the import is for, and {Your name} with your name

Hi {User},

Seeing how there are translation templates awaiting review on
  https://translations.launchpad.net/{project}/{series}/+imports
I thought I'd remind you that you can (and should) do the approval yourself now.

The process is described on
  https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject/ImportingTemplates#Manual_review
(the documentation has more useful tips for how to successfully deal with this)

For now, we have marked your entries as 'Needs Information' (just so we can track that we have emailed you about it), but you can still directly approve them yourself.

Hope this helps!
{Your name}
Launchpad developer