[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4252: De-prioritize plugin changelog translation

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#4252: De-prioritize plugin changelog translation
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 Reporter:  Nao                       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:
Component:  Translate Site & Plugins  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:8 Luciano Croce]:
 > @dd32 about the B proposal (separate change log into a sub-project) what
 do you think?
 >
 > Could it be a possible change?

 Possible yes, but it's not something that I'm jumping to support.

 Changelog data may not be as important to those who can translate (and
 therefore read multiple languages) but it certainly would be valuable to
 those who can't (Or are not as fluent at) read English.

 To me, a proposal to split changelogs into a separate project is almost a
 request to cease translations of them entirely.
 I'm aware that's not the intention here, but it certainly feels like it
 is.

 I do agree that keeping ten years of changelogs is useless though, and
 translating those old logs is a waste of everyone's time.

 From a technical perspective, anything is possible, but segregating it
 into a new protect would add a fair bit of hidden extra logic and code,
 it's not as simple as it may first appear.

 I think I'd rather invest in better tooling, perhaps where the priority
 tagging is more effective than it currently is, perhaps stats of
 percentage of high priority strings are translated rather than focusing on
 full projects, etc.
 #1078 is something that could help greatly with translating the readmes,
 but probably also increase the approval workload.

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