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  • Translation release check-in

    • Malayalam updates

    • Hannah is aware!

    • Get BETA ready for an guided tour (hiding the unfinished bits as an in progress demo)

    • Any way to highlight the flow of strings?

      • not necessarily worth the time

      • compare english and Malayalam and add placeholder in Crowdin to make it searchable

    • Paid translations

      • have not heard back past automated email

  • Translation Retro

    • Maintaining existing languages

      • Divya Chayanam - Language specific feature release?

        • Don't currently have this ability to feature flag

        • Could default those features to english

        • David Trapp

          • can we make explicit to contract with partners?

          • Volunteer vs partner languages is different process

        • Options:

          • default english

          • bad (but mostly ok) ai translations

          • language based module hiding (useful long term)

          • Duncan Brain can we develop even more relationships per langauge?

    • Future languages minimum requirements / SOP for how to integrate them

      • List of all materials that need to be translated when adding a new language

      • What are our responsibilities for adding a new language?

      • As we keep adding new features, how do we keep up with translated versions of those features? Do we define a periodical frequency of such updation?

    • Standard of translation? (Especially for languages further and further from English)

    • Anto Sgarlatta - can we organize translation files better as devs?

  • How do we maintain a realistic correlation between effort and timelines?

  • Can AI translation help us maintaining release schedules? (It’s getting better and better, specially for western languages). Crowdin has an integrated AI module (in beta though)

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Shout outs

  • Loïc, getting out the one-pagers

  • All the translators

  • Joyce Sato-Reinhold for releasing pretty much solo!

Action items:

Rollover action items from last time

  •  Devs + Denis Dovganyuk + David Trapp to review a good labeling system for existing Jira bugs at pointing tomorrow - After sprint?