OK, bit more time to go through the mail. > 2. As for Rafael's changes and storing Author and description in the map > file...
The issue here is that we can not store the description in the map iteself because it needs to be translated. The author is fine. Currently we effectively do neither. Rafaels patch does both. If we can get the author into the map, a bunch of the stuff you have been wrangling in the strings file can go from: map.Africa=Large Africa by J.Bloggs to map.Africa=Large Africa by %author% which does not help your work much now, but is more maintainable. There would have to be code support of course to pull in the %author%, but that is straightforward. I have a note on the todo list to think more about the whole translation setup, but that is post-release. We already have extra standalone FreeColMessages.properties files in the mods, which are currently not getting translated AFAICT. If we can fix that, we can probably handle having similar files in the .fsm map bundles. That would probably be a better design than having the above map.<foo> entries in the master strings file. The major concern with any change to how we do translations is to not mess with the volunteer translators. Keeping things easy for them is mandatory. > 4. Regarding Sourceforge improvements... Yeah, I suspect front page hackery may be locked to the main project admins, which means I probably have to do it. The offer is: if I see messages here from at least two regulars saying that <url> is ready to go as a replacement for {SF front page, screenshot, whatever} I will make time to work out what has to be done. Time is the issue, I never used to do anything with SF admin, and it always takes me a while to work out what does what. > 6. As discussed in past emails I overhauled your old FreeCol ModDB page ...another thing I had never sighted. No idea who originally created it. If it needs an "official" owner, you are it Blake. > 7. [Social] Please do not interpret my absence from the facebook bit as disapproval. I just do not use it, deliberately. Getting time to work on FreeCol is hard enough lately, I do not need more time sinks. Perhaps I will look at the discord channel... eventually. Nevertheless, thanks for pushing this stuff forward. Cheers, Mike Pope
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