Re: Translation commits pushed when rolling a tarball

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet 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. :)

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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