Re: Translator credits (to maintainers)

[David Bolter <dtb gnome org>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Jonh Wendell <jwendell gnome org> wrote:
>   
> > Hi, folks.
> >
> > This is just a warning about translator names in NEWS file:
> >
> > You should get the translator name from the "Last Translator" field in
> > the .po file, not from po/Changelog. Sometimes the translator is not the
> > same person as who commits the file.
> >     
>
> Hi, first my apologies, I've always pulled translator names from
> po/Changelog ;-)
>
>   
> > There is even a script to help us on this job:
> > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/releng/trunk/single_module/tools/list_translators.sh?view=markup
> >     
>
> Thats really cool and I wish I knew about it before, hey I wonder if -
> it would make any
> difference to maintainers (I think it might for me), if this script
> were available in the
> gnome-common module sitting beside gnome-autogen.sh
> (gnome-translator-credits.sh ?)
>
> Frankly, I rebuild my gnome sandbox from scratch often enough, and reinstall my
> OS probably once each gnome release cycle - I dont see how I could possibly
> remember the location of that script.
>
> Just a suggestion, I may be the only one .. and I'll be happy to just
> copy the script
> into my own module and be on my way ;-)
>   

The script is linked to here: 
http://live.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner/Releasing. We should probably 
make the link text something like "translator credit script" instead of 
"this".

Anyways, thanks for starting this thread... I sometimes lapse on 
translator credits and it is very important. (My apologies)

cheers,
D