Credited Suggestions

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Dienstag, den 01.07.2008, 17:12 +0100 schrieb Caroline Ford:
> 2008/7/1 Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com>:
> > 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.

Cheers,

Sebastian
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