GIMP's `master` branch string freeze

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Hello translators!

We are finally moving on with a string freeze for GIMP 3.0.0! :partying_face:

As you all imagine, this will be a huge release and we are going to have a release candidate first (GIMP 3.0.0-RC1), then possibly more depending on reported bugs. This is why we don’t set a release date for sure here.

We are feature-frozen already and we think that all remaining work-in-progress we had which would touch localized strings are done. If ever we realize that we missed some strings which should really be added/updated, we’ll ping you here. Hopefully this won’t happen.

Obviously we welcome translations on all GIMP-related modules, including on GEGL. :hugs:

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Notification to translators:

Thanks to @ajonsson who noticed it, there was an obvious typo for a string saying "Could not open '%s' for reading AA" (the “AA” in the end was not supposed to be there).

Since it made no sense whatsoever, I just fixed it with this commit.

Sorry for this! :bowing_man:

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Sorry all, the great @ajonsson found another bug in text which breaks string freeze: menus: fix Plug-In CamelCase (!1805) · Merge requests · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab

This one was a bit harder to discover as it was hidden in the XML menu files. :sweat_smile:

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I realized today that I completely forgot to write the AppStream <release> tag so I’m going to add it shortly.

This being said, AFAIK, this won’t break string freeze because anyway the <release> tag’s description are not being translated right now in GNOME translation infrastructure. But just, I thought I’d add a notice here about this, just in case…

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Hello all! Unfortunately, one of the labels for the Distress Selection plug-in doesn’t show up when ported to the 3.0 API due to the parser reading “1 < - - > 254” as being an invalid tag. We had to remove the extra description to fix it, so the label is now just “Threshold”. Sorry!

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Hi everyone, I’m afraid there’s one more string addition to the script-fu category of GIMP.

An API port exposed a string in the Stencil Carve plug-in dialog, so there’s the new string “Mask drawable” for selecting the mask drawable. This is hopefully among the last string additions, there are not so many bugs tagged rc1 left now :slight_smile:

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We found a wrong section header in a GIMP dialog. The fix (re)introduces the string “Reflectivity” in GIMP 2.99. The string was already present in 2.10. I am sorry for the inconvenience!

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For info, we are getting very close to GIMP 3.0 RC1. I hope releasing on Sunday, November 3 (though no promises!).

A babl release already happened, we are at 99% in our milestone with only 3 reports opened (though I have some tasks I want to take care of which are not marked in the milestone) and @CmykStudent is already preparing a draft for the RC1 news.

Looking kinda good so far! :sweat_smile:

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More on the progress: I started the checklist for the RC1 release here: Release GIMP 3.0.0 RC1 (#12244) · Issues · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab

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It took some time. We were quite well prepared this time around (we had the news ready days before, etc.), but it’s like we had all possible infrastructure problems (on GNOME infra, Flathub, even MS infra had issues!) possible for our binaries to actually be made. In the end, we finally managed to get all packages up and ready! Enjoy! :partying_face:

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