Opened 8 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#7452 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Plugin short descriptions are limited to 150 characters
Reported by: | garrett-eclipse | Owned by: | johnjamesjacoby |
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Milestone: | 2.9 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Core | Keywords: | |
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Description
Hello,
Super minor, while translating found this string in the Readme which is missing the last g for messaging.
String;
BuddyPress helps site builders and WordPress developers add community features to their websites, with user profile fields, activity streams, messagin
Cheers
Change History (16)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #meta-i18n by netweb. View the logs.
8 years ago
#3
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8 years ago
- Keywords close added
Both readme.txt's for trunk and stable contain the correct string: BuddyPress helps site builders and WordPress developers add community features to their websites, with user profile fields, activity streams, messaging, and notifications.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/readme.txt#L10
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.8/src/readme.txt#L10
It looks like the readme parser for translate.w.org has a glitch in the matrix:
Reported here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/meta-i18n/p1488249693422576
The following readme.txt
string has been truncated from the source:
- String:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/dev-readme/en-ca/default?filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=3339332
- Source: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddypress/trunk/readme.txt#L10
- The string should be:
BuddyPress helps site builders and WordPress developers add community features to their websites, with user profile fields, activity streams, messaging, and notifications.
- It is missing the last 21 characters:
g, and notifications.
#4
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8 years ago
- Keywords needs-patch added; close removed
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 2.9
- Summary changed from Readme string missing g for messagin to Plugin short descriptions are limited to 150 characters
Via https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/meta-i18n/p1488251569459568
dd32 [2:12 PM] So there you have it, plugin short descriptions are truncated to 150char, as you can see in the header of See https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/
#5
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8 years ago
Thanks @netweb appreciate you doing the legwork there, sounds like you have it under control there prompting a shorter description. Here if you need me, Cheers
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #buddypress by netweb. View the logs.
8 years ago
#7
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8 years ago
- Keywords needs-unit-tests added
Via Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1488278198207249
johnbillion [9:36 PM] Ooh that should have a unit test that reads the readme.txt file and counts the length of the description.
Great idea :+1
#8
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7 years ago
- Keywords dev-feedback added; needs-unit-tests removed
So what do we have to do here? Do we need to truncate our short description for translate.wordpress.org?
Here's an attempt at 150 characters:
BuddyPress helps site builders and developers add community features to their websites. Profiles, groups, activity, friends, messaging, notifications.
#9
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7 years ago
@r-a-y I believe this has become a two parter;
- Fix the length to be 150 characters, which you've started.
- Introduce "a unit test that reads the readme.txt file and counts the length of the description." (johnbillion via slack)
Slack Reference - https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1488278198207249
Thanks
#10
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7 years ago
I think the unit test is overkill as the short description is rarely updated, but if someone wants to write a unit test for this, feel free to do so!
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #buddypress by r-a-y. View the logs.
7 years ago
#13
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7 years ago
We could squeeze this in before string freeze point? - hesitating to punt to 3.0 for the moment.
In trunk I found a string that seems related so assuming this is what the string mentioned in ticket should actually be as it's a truncated version.
String;
BuddyPress helps site builders and WordPress developers add community features to their websites, with user profile fields, activity streams, messaging, and notifications.
Permalink - https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/dev/en-ca/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=3339331&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=48021937
Cheers