Next steps for Fractal

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

Hello,

CCing Julian, co-maintainer of the Fractal

As some of you may know, a rewrite of Fractal has been happening for a
while now. The master branch was mostly inactive while the rewrite was
happening on the fractal-next branch. The application was not yet
usable, we didn’t even offer a nightly flatpak, and the pace of
changes was such that it didn’t make sense to put it on Damned lies
yet. We are now about to change that.

`master` will be renamed to `legacy` and `fractal-next` will be
renamed to `main`. `main` will, as the name states, become the main
branch. A nightly flatpak will be provided through the GNOME apps
nightly repository, replacing the current nightly built from `master`.
The application is not advanced enough to be considered beta, we are
not replacing the beta and stable builds from flathub. This is still
in development and we are not freezing strings yet, but we’ve reached
a point where strings are going to be moving a lot less and it makes
sense to start translating. I’ll announce when the change happens so
we can do the switcheroo on DL.

That’s for the heads up to translators. Now the question that came up
when planning this is whether we could bring back the old translations
to provide a base for translators, so they don’t have to start from
scratch if the old version was already translated. I am the first one
to say that developers should stay away from po files, but in this
case… I don’t know. Can we just copy over files from the old `po`
directory` into the new one? We aren’t going to “touch” the files and
try any magic, merging, or replacement. This would be a simple
copy-paste of the files. I think that is the same thing we’ve been
doing in the past for instance for release notes. Does that work here?

Cheers,

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker