"Everyone who’s worked with open source projects know that if you’re going to make use of it, the least you can do is send any, if not all, improvements made back to the source. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your patch/work will be taken or incorporated but it is something a good citizen from the open source world should do, specially a project like Ubuntu that is so popular among the generic GNU/Linux user base!"
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from A few reasons why Rosetta should not be considered as a translation platform for existing open source projects, by Og Maciel.
Interesting thoughts (and facts!) about translations in Open Source projects, Rosetta (Canonical’s tool for translating), and the need of upstream collaboration.
I agree with Maciel about the problems that (sometimes) has caused the inefficiency of Ubuntu distribution to send back the improvements they made. Right now comes to my mind the early problems with Debian.
