Community locales and integration

[lietuvys]

@mcc

I have enough information now. Thanks everyone for their responses.

For the interest of completeness to other readers:

@mcc

there are English speakers outside of Europe that might want to use English who still don’t identify with any of the 3 locales listed.

Certainly, but the numbers to gain traction aren’t that high given Sailfish community is centered around Europe.

@mcc

I could contribute to adding a locale but it will always be something that needs to be installed later rather than shipped with the phone.

A translation that is actively maintained gets officialized and shipped with devices/flashable images, quoting from here:

Officially supported
Appear in Settings | Languages, and available in downloadable device images, that’s why the progress needs to hit 100% during every translation round in order not to delay SFOS updates.