Re: Translation commits pushed when rolling a tarball

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 09:37 +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> > Have you considered dropping an email to
> > gnome-doc-list gnome org and gnome-i18n gnome org lists before running
> > the distcheck? I found communicating with translators to be very
> > effective and the docs team would prefer communication over a ban.
>
> With an equivalent of 'svn lock', there can be a friendly message
> explaining that a developer is creating a release, and that the commit
> can be pushed later (e.g. the following day). It is anyway temporary. I
> wouldn't use the word "ban", I prefer the word "temporary lock", it is
> less negative. Docs and translations commits are more than welcome, you
> do a great job! It is just that the push conflicts can be a little
> annoying.

Well you could just create a branch do your release there so that you
don't have to care about what happens on master (branches are free in
git) and merge it back to master afterwards.