Re: Translation commits pushed when rolling a tarball

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 01/08/2014, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> 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. :)

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-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.

> --
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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