Re: String freeze break for gnome-software for 41.0

[Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>]

On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:48 AM Philip Withnall
> <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Hi!
>
> > Can we have a string freeze break for gnome-software to add four
> > new
> > strings to improve the user experience for non-sandboxed apps (i.e.
> > all
> > RPMs and DEBs). Without this change, non-sandboxed apps will be
> > presented as ‘Potentially Unsafe’ with ‘unknown permissions’ which
> > is
> > not particularly helpful to users for working out what to trust, or
> > why. On distributions which don’t have flatpak/snap set up, this
> > will
> > be all apps in gnome-software.
> >
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/987
> >
> > None of the existing strings are appropriate. The new strings are
> > quite
> > short:
> >
> > Packaged by your distribution
> > Packaged by a third party
> > Check that you trust the vendor, as the application isn’t sandboxed
> > Application isn’t sandboxed but the distribution has checked that
> > it is
> > not malicious
> >
> > The exact wording of these may change before the merge request is
> > approved; it’s currently undergoing review.
> >
> > Accompanying issue:
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1450
>
> Thank you for the well written request, with all the details!
>
> “Soft translation deadline” was yesterday according to
> https://wiki.gnome.org/FortyOne
> How soon do you expect to publish the 41.0 tarball? It looks like
> merging now would most likely result in these new strings not being
> translated for almost all languages. Do you reckon we could merge
> this
> immediately after the 41.0 release, so it gets in 41.1?

I expect we’ll release the 41.0 tarball tomorrow. We could perhaps wait
until Monday if that would definitely help translators? Could probably
get away with that with the release team.

I suspect distros such as Fedora will ship this patch anyway, so my
thinking is that it’s best to land it ASAP before 41.0, and have some
translations, than to land it after 41.0 but distros ship it anyway,
with no translations.

Philip