Minimum translation percentage for Plasma 5 release

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Franklin Weng <franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw>
wrote:

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> 2014-08-12 2:37 GMT+08:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
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> Hi, in the 4.x world we have something called "Essential Packages" for
>> translations that is basically a set of minimum percentage of some files
>> that
>> you need to get if you want the whole translation of your language to be
>> released with the 4.x SC.
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>> For KDE Frameworks we have decided to not have a minimum of translation.
>> Each
>> Framework will ship the translation files it has available.
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>> The question here is if we want it or not for Plasma >= 5.1.
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>> If we only ship languages with say >= 70% we ensure that the shipped
>> languages
>> have a reasonable number of translations (one can't ensure quality).
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>> On the other hand a hard limit is also a bit "unfair" to users, if the
>> translation drops to 69.5% because the translator went MIA, they will stop
>> getting the translation. Also it makes it harder for smaller teams to get
>> contributors, since the moment we drop it, it gets less visibility and
>> thus
>> it's harder for the small team to get new contributors to help them reach
>> the
>> required percentage again.
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> Well, maybe not to drop it in certain range like 65%, but to warn the
> coordinator when under 70%.  And when the translation rate is under 70% for
> three consecutive versions (even in 69%) it can be dropped.
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> Franklin
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What I would suggest is to only advertise as available languages the ones
above K%, but still distribute all translations, because there's little
reason to keep to ourselves some of the translations.

Aleix
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