Re: [babel-dev] contributor info for strings submitted to the translatio

[Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that the second part probably
should not happen very often. I was just thinking about the similar case
in code fixes. People attach their suggest fixes to Bugzilla. And, a committer
has to commit the changes into cvs.

Our legal team just wants to make sure
we track where all the changes/translations came from. For example, one
contributor tells me he translated one string by himself and tells me to
commit that. But, later on, we figure that he copied some copyrighted translations
from somewhere. We need to be able to track this down and remove that.

Kit Lo
IBM Eclipse SDK Globalization Technical Lead

Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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01/17/2008 07:34 PM

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Kit,
There's "technically feasible" and "socially feasible".
Technically, we can do this. Socially, only the first part is going to
work (where the system automatically keeps track of the authors). The second
part, where people make notes about translations they enter for others
- realistically, nobody is going to do that, at least not for more than
a day or two, especially not people who don't work for a big company. So
we shouldn't even pretend that they are going to.

However, I also think that the second part isn't a big deal because *anyone*
can get a bugzilla account and thus be a Babel contributor, thus the "I'm
committing this string for someone else" is going to happen much less
than for code and perhaps not even happen at all.

- Bjorn

Kit Lo wrote:
For example, a  translated properties
file may look something like the sample below. 
Basically, if a contributor enters the translation directly into the server,
we will add a line like "kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx
- translated string(s) 1,2,3"
to the properties file, where "kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx"
is the Bugzilla ID of the contributor. We should have this information
since we need to log on to the server using the Bugzilla ID first.
If a committer enters a translation for a contributor by copying a fix
from a bug or e-mail, we will add a line like "denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx...",
where we can add a note on where the translation came from.

Is that feasible to do? Any comments? 
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