Transifex updates

[StephanP]

@MrB
In Transifex new texts have been added (recently) to ScribusStable while the trunc branch Scribus remained untouched.

What is the status of the Transifex branches ScribusStable and Scribus and which translation(s) are we supposed to keep up-to-date?

How can translators discover possible inconsistencies between the two branches?

[MrB]

ScribusStable (in Transifex) is the 1.6.x stable code branch. It doesn't mean translations are 100% locked in but are mostly unchanging. We'll be releasing 1.6.3 soon enough. Worth keeping it 100% up to date.

Scribus (in Transifex) is the 1.7.x branch and is definitely not stable. Lots changing here in the UI. Likely we will release 1.7.0 without calling for translation updates. Update at will.

[StephanP]

Thanks for this explanation.
I have another question about the ScribusStable branch, as I think I'm seeing inconsistencies in the Dutch translation compared to the Scribus branch.

I figure it must have been about a year ago that the ScribusStable branch was created. Was this created as a copy from the Scribus branch or was it drawn from the code base, not necessarily the same as the Scribus branch?

Further question: How can one create and maintain consistency between these two translation branches, preferrably semi-automatically?
Hint: translations in branch Scribus are not offered as suggestions in ScibusStable and vice versa.

Having put a tremendous amount of effort in the branch Scribus in the past - assuming that it would soon override the Scribus 1.4 branch - I fear that now I have to go through ScribusStable once again, checking all 7613 texts for consistency as I did in 2022-2023.

[MrB]

I don't remember exactly, but I believe it went like this when we moved from 1.4/1.5 to 1.6 (from 1.5) / 1.7 (from 1.5):
- Rename ScribusStable to Scribus 1.4.x
- Copy Scribus to ScribusStable
- Introduce Scribus based on the same.

I'm not sure how to combine suggestions between the two. I don't think you need to check all texts though. I hope that 1.6.x will not have a tremendously long life. The advances in 1.7 suggest to me we're more heading to 1.8.

[AdmFubar]

is there a list of upcoming features for 1.7, and 1.8?

[MrB]

https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=117 is the changelog but we have not written the list for the release notes yet