370751 - Someone has taken [e-mail], but no extension exists

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Dictionaries, defect)

Description

[hansen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070217 Minefield/3.0a3pre
Build Identifier: 

Someone has taken [e-mail], so I can't release the "official" Danish dictionary under that name.

At the moment I use [e-mail], but that creates problems several places.
For instance; https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/?lang=da

Could someone help me by giving me the rights to "da"-dictionary? Then I could upload the official Danish dictionary.
And perhaps a solution for the "danish"-dictionary - should it be removed or should I continue to maintain that as well?

The current Danish dictionary is at https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/3596/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

confirming. I see this problem too.

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Which extension is the one with da@dictionaries...., and who'd be 'someone'? And what's the difference between that dictionary and the one that you would like to publish?

Comment 3

[hansen]

I have no idea. I'm just prompted with an error, that someone already has uploaded something with extension ID da@dictionary...

My extension (3596) is the official Danish dictionary - always up to date and used by thousands of users.

I'm the maintainer of the dictionary for MozillaDanmark and also the translator of Thunderbird, so I would love to get this fixed before 2.0.

Comment 4

[Jesper Kristensen]

http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/dictionary-packager/ generates an extension with id "[e-mail]". That id is used by somone else, AFAIK that extension has never been approved om AMO. Therefore we use an unofficial id for the Danish dictionary "[e-mail]". There are two small problems with that:

1: Benjamin's tool mentioned above creates a dictionary with another id than the one we use.
2: The dictionary is not displayed correctly on https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/?lang=da . Actual: "danish | danish | Install (476 KB)", expected: "Danish | Dansk (da) | Install (476 KB)"

"Someone" is propably hansen himself. As I remember, hansen complained about AMO behaved strange first time he tried to upload the extension. I think the extension with id da@dict... is stuck somewhere in a cavity of AMO.

I think we should keep using the id we use now. Otherwise automatic update of the dictionary would stop working.

Comment 5

[hansen]

No.

I want da@dict - and I'll maintain danish@dict too. That would be the best solution.

Comment 6

[Jesper Kristensen]

Why? The only problem I can find in having the wrong id is the cosmetic problem at AMO, which can be fixed with one line of JavaScript. Why maintain two extensions?

Comment 7

[hansen]

If we only keep the danish@dict, then we have to make redirects from da=>danish, since both Firefox and Thunderbird links to da.

That's fine by me - but I don't know how many people that would involve and it would be a hack.

Comment 8

[Jesper Kristensen]

Attachment: Display Danish dictionary correctly in remora

Corrects "danish" to "da", added above the correction for "nb-NO_nn-NO" to "nb-NO" and "nn-NO".

Solves two problems on the dictionaries page in remora:
1: Danish dictionary is displayed in the top of the page instead of the English one
2: The line with the Danish dictionary further down the page is displayed correctly

Comment 9

[Jesper Kristensen]

BTW, when JavaScript is off, all dictionary links in remora are 404 Not Found.

Comment 10

[Jesper Kristensen]

So, what option are we going for? Who is the decision makers? It would be nice to have the danish dictionary display correctly at the time of remora release.

Comment 11

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

hansen:  Judging by the email address, I'd say you already own [e-mail].  Have you tried logging in and updating it? (the email address is a gmail.com address)

(I realize this doesn't answer the danish vs. da question)

Comment 12

[hansen]

Okay - that's a bit strange, since I don't own a Gmail-account.

Could you post the mail, so we could contact the person.

Comment 13

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

I sent them an email.  I don't want to post their address publicly without them knowing.  If they are unresponsive, we can start looking at other options.

Comment 14

[hansen]

The owner of da@... replied:
> Hi there, I'm sorry, but I haven't got the faintest idea of, what You
> guys are talking about. ???? AMO - WHAT??? da dictionairies WHAT ??? 
> I should be the owner of WHAT ??? I know what a keyboard is, and is
> capable of turning the computer off an on, and I am actually also
> able to maintain some continuity in updating programs and so on, but
> what I read in the thread, You gave a link to, is as if written for a
> Serbo-Croat - no way, I can help You out here. But feel free to use
> my e-mail-adress to ask all sorts of questions about what I have done
> or where I have "been" on the Mozilla site, and I will help out there
> as best I can. At least I know, where the log is, and can go back in
> time. Once a long time ago, I offered some help with translation
> english to danish, but it was never actual for Mozilla or G-mail to
> take me up on the offer. But I never downloaded anything or heard
> anything about it, so I just assumed, my help was not needed. With
> regards, and sorry, if I didn't write in perfect english - remember,
> I am a pastry ;-D I'm Danish!!! Tina

Comment 15

[Jesper Kristensen]

(From bug 380305)

AMO now handles the special Danish extension id (see http://remora.stage.mozilla.com/da/thunderbird/browse/type:3 ). I think this bug could be closed?

Comment 16

[hansen]

As to comment #15