Jens Seidel wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 at 16:47 +0200:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:19:48PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > I'm sorry if I seemed hostile before.
>
> OK.
>
> Following your suggestions to always first check HACKING whether
> something is allowed instead of using common sense
I do not think that HACKING trumps common sense.
Daniel
> I really considered
> removing de.po from trunk and see how you would react (remember: no
> commit allowed for you without beeing a maintainer of this file :-) ...
>
> > I did not suspect at any time
> > that Kang was trying to deceive us; but I didn't want to create
> > a precedent of committing a patch without at least minimal review.
>
> So explain again: How happened the first commit?
>
> Quoting hacking.html:
>
> "We have a tradition of not marking files with the names of individual
> authors (i.e., we don't put lines like "Author: foo" or "@author foo" in
> a special position at the top of a source file). This is to discourage
> territoriality — even when a file has only one author, we want to make
> sure others feel free to make changes. People might be unnecessarily
> hesitant if someone appears to have staked a personal claim to the
> file."
>
> Considering that the last update to ko.po happened one year ago I really
> see no problem following the advice above ("we want to make
> sure others feel free to make changes").
>
> There are two possibilities:
> * The original translator vanished. Either abandon the translation
> or accept new submissions (especially if you did not suspect that
> a new contributor deceived us).
> * The original translator is still willing to help. In this case every
> patch can be checked be him, right?
>
> So I really see no possible harm at all ...
>
> Let's see whether Kang will send further updates.
>
> Jens
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Received on 2008-07-27 17:21:24 CEST