Re: First Author?

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On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 13:28, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

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> On 24.05.21 11:49, Georgios wrote:
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> > I am very happy to see that several of my translation
> > attempts are now part of the code base.
> > However they all lack First Author information. I had
> > not filled in that one as I felt it was not my place
> > to do so although in retrospect I should have asked
> > first. I had filled the email field though to make the
> > committer's life easier.
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> The tools that generate these template files produce a bunch of things
> that we don't really need. So feel free to set it up as you want. But
> if you choose to not fill it in, don't just leave the template there,
> just delete it.

Got it, thanks!

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> Personally, I am now leaning toward trimming the header comments to a
> minimum. Authorship tracking etc. can be done via Git.

Right, this sounds reasonable. However this is not currently the case,
is it? For example, the commit that first introduced libpq's el.po, namely
6206454bda, does not contain any authorship information.