[Launchpad-users] Translations exports to branches: check your contact address!

[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daily exports of translations to Bazaar branches are no longer working 
if the branch owner does not have an email address set up.  This 
particularly affects branches owned by teams.

If your project exports translations to a branch, and the owner of the 
branch is a team, please make sure that the team has a contact address 
configured.  (Or if it's a person, it can't hurt to ask if they have 
configured a preferred email address in Launchpad).  See below for how 
to set a contact address.

We are not sure yet how to solve the problem.  The email address may 
stay as a requirement in the future.

You can follow progress on the problem here:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643345

We're sorry to cause you this inconvenience.  A change was needed so 
that commits to Bazaar branches will always identify their authors 
appropriately.  But as it turns out, this went wrong for users without 
preferred email addresses, or teams without contact addresses.

To set the contact address for your team, go to its +contactaddress 
page.  If for example your team is called "myteam," then that page is at:

    https://launchpad.net/~myteam/+contactaddress

You can also reach this page by going to the team's page, and selecting 
"Change details" from the menu on the right.  That link will take you to 
a page that has an option "Set contact address" at the bottom.

Choose "Another email address:" and enter a contact address.  Do not 
select "Each member individually"; that will not work because Bazaar 
needs a single address.


Regards,

Jeroen Vermeulen
Launchpad Translations team