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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