On 9/10/08, Александър Шопов <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > My opinion that it is an overkill to file a bug report for this. I would > prefer the first translator that finds out the meaning of the word to > add a comment to the source. The developer would notice immediately and > either leave the comment intact or fix it.
Noone ever got burned by writing a bug report in Bugzilla (at least not that I know of), but I can say that people in the past *have* had their SVN accounts suspended because of committing changes that were not approved of by the module maintainer! Committing a change without approval is a very serious thing, and not taken lightly by SVN admins. If you commit anything to a module, you *must* have that module maintainers advance approval for doing so. As a translator, your only exception is the "po" subdirectory of the module... for anything else, you must have advance approval! Granted, some maintainers are very permissive, but then again, many others are also very strict about permissions. Different maintainers have (and are allowed to have) different commit policies for their module. Also, there is no trivial change that is always allowed... again, all modules are different. I can think of very valid reasons why for example even a change in a comment would not be allowed. As a SVN user, you are expected to know that you are not allowed to commit without module maintainer approval. As a translator you can commit to the "po" directory without approval, but that's as far as that special permission extends. If you abuse this, you risk having your personal SVN account suspended. Even worse, if several translators should abuse this and commit non-po stuff without module maintainer approval, we risk having all the maintainers loose their trust to translators. Then the next step would be for them to request technical commit restrictions for translators, so that then even translators who *have* asked in advance for permission for their changes wouldn't be able to commit themselves. If that horrible thing would happen, that would be a tragedy for the whole GTP... So please, never commit any non-po stuff without approval! Even if it's a "trivial" thing! Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
