[Sugar-devel] Splitting up Honey on Pootle - proposal for discussion

[Chris Leonard]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
<alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The "default activities" are today a lot more than the included in fructose
> group.
> All the activities included in OLPC image (and almost all them are included
> in AC images too) have maintainers, qa, l10n, and we are trying to keep them
> updated.
>  All the other in honey are maintained more or less, depending on the
> maintainers, you already know.
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> The solution: put in Fructose the activities that are included in images...
> Then, the fructose activities = activities by default in olpc/ac  images

The original challenge I was trying to address was an over abundance
of activities in Honey, causing very slow updates from templates and
providing little information to localizers for prioritization.  The
solution proposed was to split two categories into three.

Whether in the end of the day those categories get labelled as
Fructose/Honey1/Honey2 or Fructose1/Fructose2/Honey hardly matters.  I
can take action now to split them into the groupings described, and
the label that appears on Pootle is very easy to change should a
consensus arise on some nomenclature that still addresses the issues I
had first raised.

It was clear that creating a new chemical/confectionary term was not a
favored solution.  I'm not entirely sure a consensus set of what is
included in images is possible given the varieties of country-specific
builds made by large deployments, but that remains to be seen.

What I will be taking as a next step will help prioritize L10n and
does not rule out a change in nomenclature, if a consensus arises.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team