E-mail addresses going public when translating

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

Gudmund Areskoug wrote:

> Perhaps this may not be the reason, but the only place I found where
> it's visible via e. g. Google, is in the schooltool.po file. Logging in
> via Launchpad, I notice that a) this is most probably where my address
> was inserted from, and b) I've been attributed translations I would most
> certainly never have approved of.

If we reveal your email address to Google then that is, simply put, a bug.

 From a technical point of view email addresses are not private: you 
transmit it unencrypted for all to read every time you send an email. 
Nevertheless we make a point of not revealing it to search engines and 
such.  Do you have a URL for the file on launchpad.net that contains 
your address?

As a secondary issue, when you say you have been attributed these 
translations, do you mean that individual translation strings on 
Launchpad have your name next to them?  Or that a translation file lists 
you as a contributor?


Jeroen Vermeulen
Launchpad Translations team