Re: Translation category overhaul

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

I would love to get some input from the senior members of this list on 
the ticket, please.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues/266

Claude

Le 27.09.21 à 21:25, Sophie Herold a écrit :
> Since I'm always interested in advancing the app reorganization and
> presentations, like on apps.gnome.org, I would like to propose a new
> *GNOME Circle* category (release set) for Damned Lies.
>
> @afranke told me that it would be helpful to have a concept of how a new
> category together with a cleanup/overhaul of categories could help with
> the giant 50.000 strings main category. So I took a deep dive into the
> modules, created some .ods-sheets, and came up with the proposal below.
>
> I tried to align the proposal with the “Foundation Policy on Official
> GNOME Software” SoftwarePolicy. Note, that the current category
> structure violates this policy by branding a lot of software as “GNOME”
> while it is not part of Core or Circle.
>
> I would like to know if this looks like a good direction and how we
> could proceed on this.
>
> Best,
> Sophie
>
> | Module                         |    Strings | Description 
>                                  |
> | ------------------------------ | ---------: | 
> -------------------------------------------------------- |
> | **GNOME 42 – Core**            | **25.000** | All Core modules except 
> “core-developer-tools”           |
> | • *Essentials*                 |    *8.000* | Subset with shell, 
> Settings, Files, Web, and viewer apps |
> | • *Non-Essentials*             |   *17.000* | The remaining Core 
> components                            |
> | **GNOME 42 – Developer Tools** |  **7.000** | 
>                                    |
> | • *Apps*                       |    *2.000* | Builder etc. 
>                                    |
> | • *Library Properties*         |    *5.000* | Translated object 
> properties                             |
> | GNOME Circle                   |      2.000 | 
>                                  |
> | Games                          |      3.000 | 
>                                  |
> | Evolution                      |      6.000 | 
>                                  |
> | Other Applications             |     54.000 | Previously “Extra GNOME 
> Applications”                    |
>
> (All numbers are estimates and may change for various reasons. This
> table is also available in a [GitLab] issue that I created.)
>
> ## Give smaller and new translation teams a way to focus
>
> Estimated reduction of the number of strings by about 50%, from 50.000
> to 25.000 strings, in the “GNOME 42 – Core” category. Additionally, an
> “Essentials” sub-category provides a more realistic translation goal.
>
> ## More visibility for GNOME Circle apps
>
> Translators that want to translate Circle apps, currently have to look
> up what apps are part of Circle. Also, this again provides another
> translation goal that is smaller than just the complete “Extra GNOME
> Applications” category.
>
> ## Potential fallout
>
> Examples for apps that would currently stay in “Other Applications” and
> therefore could be treated with less priority:
>
>   - geary
>   - gthumb
>   - pitivi
>   - rhythmbox
>   - shotwell
>
> Examples for apps that would move out of “GNOME 42”:
>
>   - evolution → “Evolution”
>   - gnome-todo → “Other Applications”
>   - gnome-tweaks → “Other Applications”
>   - polari → “Circle”
>   - gnome-builder → “GNOME 42 – Developer Tools”
>
> [SoftwarePolicy]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/SoftwarePolicy
> [GitLab]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues/266