[schooltool-dev] Re: SchoolTool: translators' email addresses

[Tom Hoffman]

Jeroen,

Why are the email addresses included in the translation files at all?
Wouldn't everyone have this problem?  Wouldn't it make more sense to
not include them in the files?

--Tom

On Jan 7, 2008 8:50 AM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm with the Launchpad team in charge of the Translations application.
> It appears that the browsable source code repository on schooltool.org
> contains copies of SchoolTool translations files generated by Launchpad.
>
> That in itself is a good thing, but there is one problem: the files
> contain email addresses of contributors.  Neither the Subversion browser
> under schooltool.org/svn/ nor the Trac source browser do anything to
> hide them, so spiders such as the Google search bot can see them.  One
> contributor found reason to believe spammers may be finding these
> addresses and using them.
>
> Could you please look for ways to obscure email addresses in these
> translation files?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeroen Vermeulen
> Launchpad Translations team
>