Minimum translation percentage for frameworks release

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Alexander Potashev <aspotashev at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2014-07-31 3:51 GMT+04:00 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Alexander Potashev <
> aspotashev at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> But doing per-framework percentages is no bueno, either: imagine your
> >> app uses KService and you translated only this framework having
> >> skipped its dependencies. Then the app might be translated very poorly
> >> if many strings come from the dependent frameworks.
> >
> > Read again what Albert said, he's not proposing to filter per framework.
>
> Hi Aleix,
>
> Correct - Albert's final idea was to let the downstream decide. I'm
> almost sure that won't work well, specifically most distros will
> probably include all translations we ship, even very incomplete ones
> because
>  1. Packagers won't find out soon they need to do this filtering (i.e.
> they won't notice that we've turned off filtering on our side),
> because they didn't need to with KDE SC 4.x,
>  2. Packagers won't spent their time to write scripts for filtering
> translations in some smart way.
>
> --
> Alexander Potashev
>

Well, then we need to offer proper tooling.

Aleix
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