On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:54 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > Might be nice to get a list of them and put it in the commit message. > (e.g. if you commit the pt_BR translation, list all of the > contributors in the commit message, that should be automatable.
Ok done the way you like it Sir…. Each language has been the subject of a single commit. The license is properly applied with the authorship from transifex kept I added the authors in the commit message > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Chip Childers > <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:57:58AM -0400, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I have been committing the translations to the 4.1 branch. >>> >>> There is an issue with authorship of the translations. >>> >>> Translators submit translations of strings via a site called transifex. A >>> documentation file can therefore have multiple translators. >>> The authorship appears in the .po files and looks like this: >>> >>> # Translators: >>> # Daniela Sant Ana de Oliveira <daniela.sant...@ibge.gov.br>, 2013. >>> # Edgard Balter Jr. <ebal...@gmail.com>, 2013. >>> msgid "" >>> msgstr "" >>> "Project-Id-Version: Apache CloudStack Docs\n" >>> "POT-Creation-Date: 2013-03-19T13:38:05\n" >>> "PO-Revision-Date: 2013-03-19 14:13+0000\n" >>> "Last-Translator: sebgoa <run...@gmail.com>\n" >>> ….<snip> >>> >>> This example has two translators and I also appear there probably because I >>> uploaded the empty strings. >>> >>> Those .po files are generated automatically and used by publican to build >>> the guides in the different languages. >>> >>> I currently I committed all .po files and while putting the license header >>> I mistakenly wiped out all authorship information, which is not good. >>> >>> However there are over 1000 .po files. If I want to commit with the proper >>> authorship I need to automate it. Couple problems arise >>> >>> 1-The number of commit could be as large as 1000 :( >>> 2-A single file can have multiple authors >>> >>> The easiest way is for me to commit all .po files in one commit and keep >>> the authorship within the text of the po files. >> >> I'm OK with keeping the authorship in the .po files (assuming you were >> to re-gen and re-fix license headers to not strip them). >> >> Generally, the ASF best practice (as I've observed on general@i.a.o and >> infra-discuss@i.a.o) is to NOT include authors in the headers. However, >> given the fact that transifex takes the time to deal with it, and given >> the especially difficult workflow that individual commits would >> introduce, I'd say that we're ok with the comment-based approach. >> >> Unless anyone else objects, go with it.
