From 239c46063dff576f719a6e4327272315feb36679 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Keller Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:24:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: German ships the menus (localization parity, ROADMAP) German (de) landed in #630: the localization parity table and the ROADMAP language table now list it as menus only, 371 of 3,498 strings (10.6%), native-reviewed. The localization dimension counts 2 menus-only and 5 none, and 5 of Premiere's 10 languages well and 2 partly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- ROADMAP.md | 5 +++-- docs/localization-parity.md | 9 +++++---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md index 16a73920..03c25f8c 100644 --- a/ROADMAP.md +++ b/ROADMAP.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ **Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~19 points of ready-for-real-work and ~400–700 h away, plus opening Premiere's `.prproj` ([why](docs/target-app-parity.md#stage); passes the [core-workflow gate](docs/roadmap.md#alpha-gate)) -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (full re-measure against Premiere Pro 2026 26.5.2; scorecard, gaps, milestones and localization moved into docs/ per the craftrules progress-docs standard) · **Target:** Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 (26.5.2) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (language table: German ships the menus, #630) · **Target:** Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 (26.5.2) Progress toward parity with Adobe Premiere Pro. This page is the summary; the detail is in [docs/target-app-parity.md](docs/target-app-parity.md) (assessment, methodology, calibration), @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Premiere ships 10 interface languages. Measured from our catalogs (3,498 strings | Portuguese (Brazil) | menus only | 9.9% | | Indonesian | none | 0% | | Japanese | partial (whole interface) | 99.7% | -| German | none | 0% | +| German | menus only (native-reviewed) | 10.6% | | Korean | none | 0% | | Vietnamese | none | 0% | @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ Ranked; detail and "done when" in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md) and [docs/g | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| +| 2026-10-11 | minor | Language table: German ships the menus (#630, 10.6%) | | 2026-10-10 | minor | Readiness-by-audience table with hours to ~95% per audience | | 2026-10-10 | minor | Headline adds mainstream practitioner (~55%) and essentials user (~60%); ready for real work ~55% -> ~56% (formula written out, same inputs); beta distance ~19 points | | 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage banner links the core-workflow gate (all six workflows pass on macOS; stays alpha) | diff --git a/docs/localization-parity.md b/docs/localization-parity.md index 6124d1c7..1168d010 100644 --- a/docs/localization-parity.md +++ b/docs/localization-parity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Localization parity -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (new file: per-language status measured from the catalogs; replaces ROADMAP.md's "Interface localization" section) · **Target:** Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 (26.5.2) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (German ships the menus, #630) · **Target:** Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 (26.5.2) Per-language status of FilmCraft's interface. Premiere 26.5.2 ships 10 interface languages (the installed bundle's `.lproj` folders): German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ whole interface, one PR) at ~4–8 h per language for the catalog plus tests. | Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br | 348 (9.9%) | menus only | Latin | not recorded | menus only | 5–9 h + review | | Indonesian | id | 0 (0%) | — | Latin | — | none | 6–10 h + review | | Japanese | ja | 3,487 (99.7%) | as zh-cn; system-font kanji may pick the Chinese fallback (#547) | CJK fonts, vertical title text | not recorded | partial | 4–8 h + review | -| German | de | 0 (0%) | — | Latin | — | none (requested #490) | 6–10 h + review | +| German | de | 371 (10.6%) | menus only | Latin | yes (#630) | menus only | 5–9 h + review | | Korean | ko | 0 (0%) | — | needs Hangul fonts in craft-fonts and IME testing | — | none (requested #508) | 10–20 h + review | | Vietnamese | vi | 0 (0%) | — | Latin with stacked diacritics (font coverage to check) | — | none | 6–12 h + review | | *Other shipped:* Ukrainian | uk | 351 (10.0%) | menus only | Cyrillic (bundled) | not recorded | menus only | 5–9 h | @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ whole interface, one PR) at ~4–8 h per language for the catalog plus tests. Premiere also ships Italian and Russian, which we don't (6–10 h each). **Localization dimension:** 5 of the 12 key languages near-complete (English, Spanish, Japanese, -Simplified Chinese, French), 1 menus-only, 6 none; against Premiere's 10 languages we cover 5 well -and 1 partly. **~35%, 150–230 h** for all twelve to `full` plus Italian and Russian, of which the script +Simplified Chinese, French), 2 menus-only, 5 none; against Premiere's 10 languages we cover 5 well +and 2 partly. **~35%, 150–230 h** for all twelve to `full` plus Italian and Russian, of which the script work (RTL and complex shaping in the egui interface) is the largest and least parallel part. Every language needs native-speaker review (human). @@ -63,4 +63,5 @@ Every language needs native-speaker review (human). | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| +| 2026-10-11 | minor | German (de) ships the menus (#630): 371 of 3,498 strings (10.6%), native-reviewed; dimension now 2 menus-only, 5 none | | 2026-10-10 | major | Created from ROADMAP.md's "Interface localization" section; catalog coverage measured (es 3,496, ja 3,487, zh-cn 3,485, pt-br 348, uk 351 of 3,498); the 12-language table and script-support gaps added |