iPad Home Screen “Pos 1”

Thanks DenalB,

On a technical level, we mitigated the error in 8.9.0-15, but haven't fixed the underlying cause. :p

This bug has been a fun one to work on, it's conceptually simple, the solution is complex, because of the interactions between different systems.

We use an external service to manage the translations. We run an integration that provides the strings we define in English to the translation service. We have another integration that downloads the translated strings, creates a new git commit, and opens a merge request with the translated strings. As a result, we don't rely on an external service at build-time.

There are three relevant strings. KeyboardShortcutHome which should have the value Pos1. MobileTabBarHome and HomeTitle should both have the value Startseite.

The problem is our translation system incorrectly thinks these strings are duplicates. So, when we download new translations, MobileTabBarHome and HomeTitle get set back to Pos1.

We will be adjusting the way duplicates are handled, but that requires some other technical changes, that we don't have in-place yet.

James Dressel
Senior Build Engineer