I see... that's kinda... weird. But it's not the first weird thing that I
hear about iOS development :)
I hope that Niklas or Siebrand don't hit me with a stick now, but I'd say
that when we are talking about less then a dozen of messages, as in this
case, then maybe you could merge just the messages separately to give them
a chance to get translated, and let the actual code wait in whatever state
that is good for TestFlight? If there are dozens of messages than can get
discarded, it would feel like wasting the volunteer translators' effort,
but discarding less than ten if the testing doesn't go well is not a
disaster. Just remember to delete them from the code if they are not used
for the release.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-11-17 19:58 GMT+02:00 Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hey Amir,
The problem here is that iOS's infrastructure around things like alphas
and betas is really bad. So TestFlight serves as beta, alpha, and even
pre-alpha in some cases.
What this means is that sometimes, in order to test ongoing work that has
not yet been merged so that I can give the devs feedback earlier in the
development cycle, TestFlight builds include unmerged code. Or they include
code that was just merged. Any messages that are added in this code are
therefore not represented on translatewiki.
On Android, you'd do the above by pulling master, applying the unmerged
patch, building an APK, and mailing it around privately.
Unfortunately, this is simply not possible on iOS.
We will make sure that we try to keep things synchronised, to the best of
our ability. :-)
Thanks,
Dan
On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Pingy :)
This happened again with the latest iOS beta - "Within articles" and
"Titles" are not translated, and I can't even see them in
translatewiki.net.
Can all these update please be synchronized with
translatewiki.net
before the Beta is released?
Thanks!
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-10-29 9:41 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:
Hi,
A friendly reminder: please add all new translatable messages to the
source and commit them to Gerrit as early as possible, so that translators
will get a chance to translate them before betas are released.
In the world or Wikimedia / translatewiki localization we strongly
believe that releasing translatable strings as early as possible makes the
whole process of translating and testing much more efficient and prevents
bugs such as
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72607
Thank you! :)
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation