[Kde-pim] Re: credit where credit is due

[Jay Woods]

On Saturday, January 01, 2011 04:16:01 am Ingo Klöcker 
wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2010, Till Adam wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I'd like to ask everyone's permission to break the string 
freeze
> > for a very important (I think) last minute change to the 
about
> > dialog of Kontact. The attached patch adds Torgny Nyblom 
to the
> > credits section. He almost single handedly, patiently and
> > extremely professionally moved the migration of kdepim to 
git
> > along, wrote the majority of the conversation rules (a 
boring,
> > very difficult and frustrating job, given the size and 
complexity
> > of kdepim) and finally coordinated and executed the 
actual
> > transition, which went without a hitch. We now have 
kdepim and
> > kdepim-runtime fully migrated, with full history, and 
operational
> > with only minimal disruption. Impressive job and one we 
are all
> > very thankful for, in the kdepim community. The least we 
can do is
> > give him a bit of public credit in the about dialog of our
> > flagship product, Kontact, I should think.
> 
> Hmm, why does this patch need to break the string freeze?
> 
> Torgny's work on kdepim is not restricted to the Git 
migration. He
> also writes and reviews patches. Therefore, I suggest 
replacing
>   ki18n("Git Migration")
> with a simple
>   KLocalizedString()
> and changing addCredit to addAuthor.
> 
> I don't understand why the names of authors are put in 
ki18n. I guess
> this is done to allow for translatable pseudo authors. In any 
case,
> this appears to be a suboptimal solution since surely proper 
names
> shall never be translated.

Those authors who use a language with a non-ASCII character 
set might feel that their name is being transliterated and that 
their customary character set is second class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I18n
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
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