Subject: Re: bug#18054: Problematic translation strings in coreutils 8.22

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:19:38 -0700

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Bernhard Voelker
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> On 07/19/2014 04:57 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
>> [...]
>> Problem reported by Sebastian Rasmussen in: http://bugs.gnu.org/18054
>
> This feels wrong.
> As Padraig often said, we should encourage people to contribute
> to the coreutils project.  So if someone provides a rough idea
> or a loose diff, we'd usually add an entry in THANKS.in, and if
> the contributor even took the effort to provide a clean patch,
> then we should commit in his/her name.
> This will encourage them to continue with further contributions.

I agree.  Thank you for articulating that.