1461626 - [ka] Remove fake Georgian dictionary from mercurial repository

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ka / Georgian, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Georgian ships a dictionary by default. It claims to be a dictionary for Georgian, but it's indeed a very old en-US dictionary.

https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ka/file/61092f939579/extensions/spellcheck/hunspell/readme

> These are en-US and is NOT ka (Georgian) spellcheck files indeed
> included for some purposes:
> 
> - there are no hunspell dictionaries for Georgian yet
> - could be useful to resolve some error in builds
> - would be useful for English spellchecking at least

The latter is not a good motivation: an updated English spell checker can be installed via AMO, and we have plenty of languages shipping with a dictionary by default.

It looks like there is a work-in-progress dictionary, but it has very few users. Hopefully I got the author's email right, and CCed him to this bug.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/georgian-dictionary/

In case, the license is compatible (MIT).
https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Dictionaries

We can either remove the dictionary from hg, or update it using the one available on AMO. For the latter, I would really like some testing to make sure the dictionary is suitable for release.

Comment 1

[georgianization]

I have been using this dictionary and it's working well. I asked the author if he could upload it to AMO.
Here is a link of this conversation — https://github.com/gamag/ka_GE.spell/issues/2#issuecomment-349268714
But I don't know whether it's actually ready for release or not.

> It looks like there is a work-in-progress dictionary, but it has very few users
By the way, a few weeks ago I noticed that number of users of Georgian language pack unexpectedly increased from 400 to 22 400. Are these numbers correct?

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to georgianization from comment #1)
> I have been using this dictionary and it's working well. I asked the author
> if he could upload it to AMO.

Can we go ahead and remove the fake English one in the meantime?

> > It looks like there is a work-in-progress dictionary, but it has very few users
> By the way, a few weeks ago I noticed that number of users of Georgian
> language pack unexpectedly increased from 400 to 22 400. Are these numbers
> correct?

That number seems too high compared to the number of users from Telemetry.

Comment 3

[georgianization]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #2)
> Can we go ahead and remove the fake English one in the meantime?

Yes. I don't think it's necessary anymore.

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

OK, I'm going to remove it then. If the other dictionary get in a shippable shape, feel free to file a bug and I can help landing it.

Comment 5

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ka/rev/a20537e903fcd3c485bf997a6f54a38699611289