Signal-desktop: Transifex strings not in sync

[mMuck]

• [X] I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates AND it seems to be a common problem with the Transifex strings not in sync
  

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Bug Description

After the last update many new strings aren't translated yet. 👍 for the new features BTW!
Transifex: "0 strings to translate"!?

Some screenshots

Platform Info

Signal Version: v1.35.1 german locale

Operating System: WIN

Linked Device Version: n/a

[EvanHahn-Signal]

Thanks for reporting. We'll look into this.

[denver-s]

@EvanHahn-Signal it was reported twice on the community forum's beta thread (no 1.36 beta thread btw).

[mMuck]

@denver-s Thanks for reporting that on the beta feedback thread and here!
I was added as translation member on transifex. Still nothing to translate @ Signal Desktop ☹️. So I translated some Support Center strings. BUT I came to the same out-of-sync problems: There is a troubleshooting topic about the microphone and camera permission on desktop which mentions the still untranslated setting. I have a weird feeling to translate the help text first and later someone translates the real app setting string 🤪 Isn't that vice versa normally?
https://www.transifex.com/signalapp/signal-support-center/translate/#de/HTML-articles-360007060672/298217469?q=translated%3Ano
@scottnonnenberg-signal Who's in charge of syncing translations to transifex that volunteers can get ahead?

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

Strings are automatically pulled from our development branch. Whenever we release a beta, we push to development.

[denver-s]

@mMuck I think this issue can be closed now?

[denver-s]

@scottnonnenberg-signal v1.37.1 is not updated.

[mMuck]

I think this issue can be closed now?

I don't think so.

Confirmed. v1.37.1 still contains some untranslated strings (German), examples:

• "Count muted conversations in badge count", but this was translated 25 days ago.
• "Delete message for everyone" was translated 4 days ago.
• "Pin Conversation"/"Unpin" was translated <1 day ago.

@RiseT What do you think is the problem?
@scottnonnenberg-signal Was the new/updated messages.json (electron) file published late on Transifex? Is this the problem? The community of 200+ German translators normally translate within 1..3 days. If the strings are pulled automatically - there should be some days to translate and review.
Can't see a history/revisions of transifex source file updates. Last update of the messages.json (electron) file was on Oct 15th 2020, 18:15 - completed 100 % translated and reviewed some hours ago. Less than 2 days.

[RiseT]

Looking here, the last time (at the time I'm writing this) translations have been pulled from Transifex into the code base was on 2020-09-22, i. e. 26 days ago. That's true for both master and development branch.

Edit: That's not really surprising, since the last commit updating translations is also from 26 days ago

[RiseT]

Solved.

[Elaborendum]

I don't know if this is the right issue to post this on, but I've found that there are a lot of missing translations in the spanish locale, its pretty much entirely in english save for a few seemingly random strings. Yet in Transifex it says that the translation is complete.

[RiseT]

Spanish like in Spain? Seems fully translated:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/development/_locales/es

I don't know what this other Spanish is, though, which is very incomplete and abandoned:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/development/_locales/es_419

[Elaborendum]

I'm on Windows and I can choose spanish from various other countries. Choosing any latin american spanish apparently makes Signal use that other abandoned Spanish.

Seeing as there is only one English that covers all variants. Could Signal perhaps use the current complete spanish translation whether spanish is the current system language? The differences between variants isn't that big.

Alternatively I could do the Latin American Spanish translation. But then again it would be almost identical to the current European Spanish one.

[mMuck]

Seeing as there is only one English that covers all variants. Could Signal perhaps use the current complete spanish translation whether spanish is the current system language? The differences between variants isn't that big.

Is this a question for @riyapenn-signal?
As I live currently in Peru I understand the problem. Perhaps the Spain Spanish could be a temporary replacement until the LATAM regional localizations are at 100 %?