Comment 10 for bug 25

Here is a description of the kinds of comments that are necessary in order to facilitate minimal communication between translators, coordinators and developers/packagers.

 * Developers/packagers should be able to write a comment for each template, which will be easily visible to translators when translating. This could be used e.g. to put a link to upstream, or (importantly!) stating if this is upstream.
 * Members of a translation team should be able to write a comment for each template, visible to translators of the same language. This would be equivalent to (and can be implemented using) the po-file header comment. This could be used to write down special rules/glossary and other info pertaining to that template.
 * Developers should be able to write a comment for each individual message visible to all translators (this is already supported in terms of the gettext comment feature, so nothing to do here)
* Translators should be able to write a comment for each individual message, visible to all translators of the same language (this is also equivalent to the gettext comment feature, but launchpad lacks an UI to make use of it).

This does not properly facilitate an efficient *discussion* of translations as the editing takes place, but it's an excellent start and should be simpler to design/implement than a "proper" discussion feature.

So who thinks this is important? Is there something that can be done to help getting some or all of this accepted and in the works? Maybe create some blueprints? I can't imagine that anyone reading this who has ever tried to translate would not consider this one of the most important prospective features. At some point in the future I'm willing to help develop this.