Schedule (Tentative)

Date Phase
06.29
1.7.1 Released
07.01
1.8 Development starts
10.16 1.8 Data submission starts
12.02 1.8 Data submission ends - vetting starts
01.13 1.8 Data resolution, data/structure verification and correction starts
02.10 1.8 Final Candidate available
03.10 1.8 Target release date
For details, see Release Schedule.
See also Notification Services.

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Managing Users

If you have a TC account, you can manager other translators (users). When data submission starts, you'll want to Lock the users who are no longer active, add new users, and send messages to your users. For the old users you'll want to resend passwords -- it is simplest just to do that for everyone once you've added new users.

Open the survey tool, and click on Manage XXX Users at the top right. The tool is a bit awkward to use, so ask if you have any questions. You'll then see the main window, and can do the following operations.

  1. To add a user
    1. Click on [Add User] on the top left.
    2. Set the name, email, and locales responsible. To see the locale codes, go to http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey?p_codes=t. Just use the language codes in on the right side-- the country parts are ignored. (Note that you need to use the right code in the case of synonyms: he vs iw, no vs nb, pt vs pt_BR...)
    3. You want to set the Userlevel based on your assessment of the person's skill. Normally this is "Vetter". You can use "Street" for volunteers whom you don't know. People don't have to come from your organization; those that don't are normally set to "Street".
    4. Known bug: if you try to create a user when the user already has an account, you get an unknown error message. Often this is because the user is locked. Click on "Show locked users", find the person, and change the status (see below).
  2. To resend a password
    1. In the Action column, pick Send Password for each user you want to send. Then hit the [Do Action] button at the top or bottom of the screen.
    2. If you want to do a bunch at a time, use the "Set menus" box on the left to fill in the Action columns
      1. "all" means the type of user, so pick one or more of those. (eg TC)
      2. "to" means what you want to do (eg Resend password)
      3. Hit the "list" button to set the Action menus for those users.
      4. You'll see a [Change] button; click to do the action (eg resending passwords to TC users)
  3. To send a message to all your users
    1. At the bottom, click the box for "Check this box to compose a message to..."
    2. Click [Do Action], and it will take you to a box to compose the message.
    3. Once you have a message, click [Do Action]
    4. Fill in your address (you can copy and paste) in the box (this is just to prevent mistakes), and click [Do Action]
    5. Later on, in the vetting phase, you can send messages with the outstanding disputes (cases where people disagree on the translation) by checking the box marked "Check this box to send a Dispute complaint"
  4. To change users' status
    1. Click on the magnifying glass in the left column. You zoom in on that user, and have more Actions in the action column.
    2. Click the one you want, and hit [Do Action]
    3. Normally you don't want to delete users -- you want to Lock them. (Deleting removes information about what they've submitted so far.)
  5. To check coverage (that all your important locales are covered)
    1. Click Coverage at the top right.
    2. The Gray locales are ones that are not a priority for your organization. (If that's wrong, let the CLDR committee know!)
    3. If you need new locales added, let your committee representative know.
    4. To see what the participation of your vetters has been recently, click on the Participation Shown link at the top.
      • Note: this has a bug currently where the table becomes very wide -- you'll have to scroll or expand your window.
  6. To check if you have "bad" locales.
    1. Go to Coverage (up at the top right in the survey tool)
    2. If you see the following message, then some of your users have bogus locales OR locales that aren't in CLDR.
      • Warning: locale designations not matching locales in CLDR: X....
    3. Go to Manage Users (top right), and look at the users signed up to these locales
    4. When they are bogus fix them (work with translator to replace by real locales from http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey?p_codes=t)
    5. When they are valid, you may propose to the committee that we add a locale:
      1. Valid ones are under languages in en.xml
      2. OR (unusual case) under languages in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis-04.txt
      3. However, watch for mistakes, eg someone using "tw" to mean Taiwanese, when it actually means "Twi"
  7. To see how your translators are doing.
    1. To see what needs doing, go to http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/errors/index.html
    2. To see what your translators have done, login to the Survey Tool and go to Coverage (link at top right).
    3. You get a view of your translators.
    4. Click on the link "Participation Shown (click to toggle) is currently On / Off ".
    5. Go get a cup of coffee (this will take a little while)
    6. At the bottom of the screen, you'll see a list of who has participated, and how many submits and votes they've each made.
    7. Note: there is a bug with the top table causing it to be too wide. Maximize your screen size (and use a wide screen if you have one).