Re: String freeze break for gnome-software for 42.1

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 25.04.22 à 18:36, Alexandre Franke a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:59 PM Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk 
> <mailto:philip tecnocode co uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>
> Hey!
>
> I had a draft ready on the same day you sent your request, but needed 
> clarification. Pinged you in the Hackers room but didn’t get any 
> response and then forgot about it.
>
>     Can we have a string freeze break for gnome-software to add more
>     information about file system permissions required by flatpak apps?
>     […]
>
>     I realise you’re probably not going to be happy about this!
>
>
> I’m actually happy that you approached this the right way and took us 
> into account. Bonus points for the clear presentation and listing the 
> strings so we don’t have to hunt them down. The timing is also not the 
> worst, so not much to be unhappy about!
>
>       1. Add these new translatable strings now, in time for the 42.1
>     release (this week). This means the bug will be fixed, but the strings
>     will likely not be translated in many languages.
>
>
> That would have been 10 days for three strings that are not too complex, 
> at a time when there isn’t much other activity in other modules. Looked 
> relatively reasonable. I would not have beent against landing this right 
> after you requested it. You said “this week” though, which threw me off. 
> Considering you just bumped, I supposed you indeed meant 10 days from 
> that date. Anyway, it’s too late for this.
>
>       2. Add these new translatable strings after the 42.1 release, to give
>     more time for them to be translated ready for 42.2.
>
>
> This one definitely looks great now.
>
>       3. Don’t add these new strings on 42.x at all, and use the
>     inappropriate-but-already-existing “can read/write all your data”
>     string instead.
>
>
> No, I don’t think this option is necessary at all. Worst case, we can go 
> with option 2.
>
> So here is approval 1/2 from i18n for option 2.

Sorry for the lag, approval 2/2,

Claude
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