Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – Feb. 6, 2019

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Here’s the agenda for the chats this week. If you have anything you’d like to add, please leave a comment.

Weekly localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ stats
WP 5.1 Beta 3
- Classic Editor v1.4
- The scheduled release date is February 21 (RC1/string freezeString freeze The term "string freeze" is used by the core team to mark the end of changes to the strings of an upcoming release. A string freeze also means that there will be no more strings added to the core project. Sometimes a string freeze has two phases a soft freeze and a hard freeze. A string freeze is announced on the Polyglots blog by the current release lead. is planned for February 7)
Some other meta projects have new stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings.
Feedback needed
- Locale-specific slack rooms.
Global WordPress Translation Day 4
- Recap from first organizing team weekly meeting (Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 13:00 GMT in #polyglots-events)
Time permitting: Open floor

Chat time:

Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 6:00 AM GMT in #polyglots

See you there!

#weekly-meeting-notes, #weekly-meetings

Naoko Takano 7:29 am on February 7, 2019
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Attendance: @priyankabehera155 @ronakganatra @mayukojpn @atachibana @ibdz @prathameshp

LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ Stats
Releases: 180 (±0) locale, 51 (+3) up to date, 8 (-3) behind by minor versions, 19 (±0) behind by one major version, 34 (±0) behind more than one major version, 59 (±0) have site but never released, 9 (±0) have no site.

Translations: 180 (±0) total, 26 (+16) at 100%, 39 (-15) over 95%, 8 (-1) over 90%, 35 (±0) over 50%, 64 (±0) below 50%, 110 (±0) have a language pack generated, 8 (±0) have no project.

Requests: There are 187 unresolved editor requests out of 2 280 (+19) total and 26 unresolved locale requests out of 106 (+1) total.

Translators: There are 579 (+1) GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale., 2 964 (+20) PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after a request by the project author or by the contributors themselves. and 30 690 (+236) translation contributors.
(A wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ account could have multiple roles over different locale)
- Global WordPress Translation Day 4 (GWTD4) is scheduled for May 11, 2019
- GWTD4 meeting will be on Tuesday at 13:00 UTC
- Locale-Specific Slack discussion
  - Attendees either use local SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Team or Facebook group as the communication method, not much interest in using a channel on the main WP Team (India, Japan, and Thailand)
  - @priyankabehera155 will look into starting a Slack Team for Oriya

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