Hi, I wanted to raise a potential issue about authorship of translations.
Currently we manage translations of the UI and docs via a website called http://www.transifex.com Our documentation and UI resource files are uploaded to this site. Translators can go to our project transifex pages: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/ACS_DOCS/ https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/ACS-Runbook/ https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/CloudStack_UI/ The maintainers of these "projects" are all CloudStack committers except Isaac Chiang. There are 2 issues: 1-translations can be pulled by any committers. In the case of publican, it could be thousands of files. Transifex keeps authorship of the translations in the header of the file. A file could have multiple translators (since translations is done string by string and not file by file). When we make the commit the only way to keep proper authorship would be to make a commit for each file (potentially thousands of commits) and this would not solve the issue of multiple authorship per file. For 4.1 I put the authors in the comment of the commit like this: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=commit;h=dddae087368f62784f06312a5c565f1a02825011 Note isaachi...@gmail.com in the comment, and note that his email is in every .po file. I kept it there to make sure we kept authorship. (Just an example, nothing special with Isaac) Do we have a legal issue here ? Do you see a better way of doing this ? I would like to note that Transifex has been terrific in helping build a community of translators (~32 translators so far) and that most of them would be put off by a submission process via review board. Transifex has a very nice UI that tremendously eases the translation. 2-Recently a group of Omani students started a project on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/apache-cloudstack-ul/ I have met these folks and they wanted a separate project to manage their "team" (transifex has a concept of team). They are from the CS student organization at the Oman University. How do I get their translations ? Their transifex project is not maintained by us. I can certainly pull their translations and commit them with ack of the authors. I did ask them to translate on our project page but it's unclear whether they are going to do it or not. [update]: since I drafted this, they have moved their translations to our Apache UI project. Thoughts ? -Sebastien
