#837 "Last changed" in footer displays build info instead of commit info

check-translation-status.sh at least extracts the last commit date from the git history. Getting the author shouldn’t be a huge problem either

Related to #64 where we discuss about the impact of getting author/timestamp info via Git

Please note that there is much discussion about possible approaches to this in #64 and some experiments around these approaches in #952 and #974. Special thanks to @ulf for these pull requests!

However, now as we decided for a way to detect outdated translations completely independently from git commit times, I get more and more convinced that having the date of the last commit displayed in the footer (or even just in a HTML comment) is not worth the effort we would have to spend on it.

I actually even think that displaying date and author of the last commit is not useful at all, because the last commit could be a purely technical one (like some change in the tag structure) and displaying that date would make a wrong impression about the last actual update of the content.

So in the end I propose to:

• delete all processing of the <timestamp> element in the build script and the XSL templates, thus removing that bit of information from the footer
• delete the <timestamp> element from all files
• close this issue as well as the two pull requests #952 and #974

Would be fine with me. The argument about the confusion git commit vs actual content change convinces me that this timestamp may be problematic.