Re: Announce: Enabling site-wide "Contributor in comment" in Fedora Weblate

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 09:46:28PM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle via trans wrote:
> Translation project maintainers,
>
> We, Fedora Weblate administrators, are considering enabling the Weblate's
> "Contributor in comment"[1] add-on to the whole Fedora Weblate instance. It
> updates the comment part of the PO file header to include contributor names
> and years of contributions.
>
> This is planned for March 6, 2026 if nothing comes up. See the tracker
> issue at localization/tickets #51 [2].
>
> Please reach us if you have any questions or objections.

That ticket is missing a compelling rationale for this change, as IMHO
listing author names in the .po files (or any source file) is an obsolete
hangover from the days before people used reliable version control for
change tracking.

In upstream projects I'm maintaining that use Fedora weblate, we long
ago stopped recording any "Author" lines in most source code files,
with the intent that every contributor is accurately identified by the
git commit author records. We have weblate configured to merge commits
"by author", so we can retain a record of what work each translator did.

IMHO "Contributor in commit" plugin should remain optional for any
projects which are preserving translator authorship via git history,
rather than force this obsolete history tracking concept on all projects.


With regards,
Daniel
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