Re: Credited Suggestions

["Caroline Ford" <caroline.ford.work@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/7/1 Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Am Dienstag, den 01.07.2008, 17:12 +0100 schrieb Caroline Ford:
>> 2008/7/1 Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Should people who only made suggestion that haven't been approved be
>> > really part of the translator credits? Since everybody is free to
>> > contribute suggestions and most users don't even provide a real name, we
>> > end up with a wired list of names.
>> >
>> > From my point of view this makes a bad impression on the quality of the
>> > translation.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Sebastian
>>
>> Well upstreams are very used to people using nicknames so we don't get
>> a bad impression from a long list of names. However it would be a lot
>> better if the list of authors was included in the po file rather than
>> separately. We're all pretty hot on licensing and author details, as
>> you'd imagine. Would laucnhpad's laxity with authors get through
>> Debian? Sometimes I doubt it.
>
> As far as I know I have only seen full names in the authors sections or
> copyright statements of other projects.
>
> The authors list is included in the po file. See the translation of
> translator-credits.
>
>> It's already really hard to incorporate people's work. You fork
>> translations from us and amend them!
>
> Re-using and modifying the work of others is the nature of Open Source
> and Free Software. So I don't see a problem here.
>
>> I still haven't worked out a way of undoing the delta, or even
>> getting launchpad to work from upstream's latest work.
>
> You can upload po files as published uploads to import the latest
> upstream translations.
>
> To undo the changes just click on the "Changed in Launchpad" filter and
> reset the translation by clicking on the corresponding "packaged" radio
> buttons.
Upstreams do not have the permissions to upload new po files!  (Unless
something has changed very recently).

Caroline