On 01/08/2014, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeesha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Sébastien Wilmet <swil...@gnome.org> wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> At some rare occasions, especially after the string freeze, translation >> commits are pushed when rolling a tarball for making a new release. >> Since the commit for the release should be pushed only when 'make >> distcheck' has succeeded, there can be a push conflict and the >> maintainer have to repeat the process (sometimes several times). >> >> I think it would be nice to send mails on gnome-i18n and gnome-doc-list >> to explain that commits should not be pushed during the release days. If >> a translation or documentation commit is important, the maintainers can >> anyway be contacted on IRC to know if the commit can be pushed. >> >> I think there is no equivalent of 'svn lock' for git, so sending a mail >> is a solution. >> >> Bonus point is to add a warning on l10n.gnome.org, but it is more work. >> >> What do you think? > > +1. > >> Is it too rare to care about this problem? > > I don't think so but being a maintainer for years, you'll learn to do > `git push origin master` first always. :)
As someone who makes releases, I always prefer to have the latest translation in the release, but I understand that running a distcheck on some of the larger projects can take a long time. From a documentation point of view, it doesn't make sense to block pushes for a whole day, especially as some maintainers release very late. Have you considered dropping an email to gnome-doc-l...@gnome.org and gnome-i...@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. > -- > Regards, > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > ________________________________________ > Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
