String/Feature freeze exception request

[Zayed Al-Saidi]

No objection from the Arabic team.

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 2:18 AM Ismael Asensio <isma.af at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello dear devs and translation teams!
>
> I'd like to request a string freeze exception to cherry-pick this MR into
> 6.1:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/589
>
> The MR adds a new placeholder item (and therefore 3 new strings) to
> the weather applet, in case we fail to retrieve the forecast report due to
> server errors in the provider.
>
> Otherwise, the applet will look broken, giving many users a suboptimal
> experience.
>
> This just transpired now due to some recent changes in the US Weather
> Service provider (noaa), which may make it fail. It was a very bad timing
> that it just happend the first weekend after the 6.1 beta freeze.
>
> The full fix will require bigger changes to port our provider to use their
> new API.
>
> Nate Graham already gave a +1 to the exception on the plasma size
> (
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/589#note_951996
> )
> As I am not subscribed to the i18n mailing list, please use "Reply All"
> rather than "Reply List".
>
> Thanks!
>
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> P.S. Please, excuse the double post on plasma-devel, I didn't set the
> right address for the i18n mailing list
>
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