S96 Retrospective

Background

This retro is for S96:

Please add comments before the meeting! We’ll take a few minutes to add additional comments and discuss, then put together action items to operationalize suggestions.

Last sprints (S95) retro is here: S95 Retrospective

Discussion topics:

• 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)

Action items:

• Define flows needing translating for demo Divya Chayanam
• Flag the files in the flows with a placeholder in linkedin Denis Dovganyuk
• Finalize and scope approach to feature releases without translations as a blocker Divya Chayanam Anto Sgarlatta
• SOP for languages David Trapp Divya Chayanam
• Technical scoping to meet deadlines between Anto Sgarlatta Divya Chayanam Loic Sans David Trapp
• Discuss Q3Q4 in Planning meeting

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?