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

Daniel P. Berrangé via trans píše v po 02. 03. 2026 v 09:14
+0000:
> 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
> --
>

Our motivation is encouragement of translators credits. As a
translation community we have perhaps a bit closer to .po
files than git(s). Though listing translators in .po files
on its own is not guarantee of the credit, neither is it the
commit authorship.

My view is your concern is reasonably understandable and we
have already touched that in our internal discussion.
Nevertheless, I still tend to think that the projects
sensitive to the space/size requirements are smaller in
quantity.

And yes, the 'Contributors in comment' add-on stays optional
in an opt-out way. It deserves inclusion either in our
documentation and 'request template'.

With regards,

Josef
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