Re: Next steps for Fractal

Hi Alexandre,

It's ok for me to copy the old PO files to avoid repeating translations
already done in the past.

Many thanks for asking us about this, I think your proposal makes sense and
it's a good idea to do it.

Regards


El lun, 28 mar 2022 a las 18:47, Alexandre Franke (<[email protected]>)
escribió:

> Hello,
>
> CCing Julian, co-maintainer of the Fractal
>
> As some of you may know, a rewrite of Fractal has been happening for a
> while now. The master branch was mostly inactive while the rewrite was
> happening on the fractal-next branch. The application was not yet
> usable, we didn’t even offer a nightly flatpak, and the pace of
> changes was such that it didn’t make sense to put it on Damned lies
> yet. We are now about to change that.
>
> `master` will be renamed to `legacy` and `fractal-next` will be
> renamed to `main`. `main` will, as the name states, become the main
> branch. A nightly flatpak will be provided through the GNOME apps
> nightly repository, replacing the current nightly built from `master`.
> The application is not advanced enough to be considered beta, we are
> not replacing the beta and stable builds from flathub. This is still
> in development and we are not freezing strings yet, but we’ve reached
> a point where strings are going to be moving a lot less and it makes
> sense to start translating. I’ll announce when the change happens so
> we can do the switcheroo on DL.
>
> That’s for the heads up to translators. Now the question that came up
> when planning this is whether we could bring back the old translations
> to provide a base for translators, so they don’t have to start from
> scratch if the old version was already translated. I am the first one
> to say that developers should stay away from po files, but in this
> case… I don’t know. Can we just copy over files from the old `po`
> directory` into the new one? We aren’t going to “touch” the files and
> try any magic, merging, or replacement. This would be a simple
> copy-paste of the files. I think that is the same thing we’ve been
> doing in the past for instance for release notes. Does that work here?
>
> Cheers,
>
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