Credits: Add more titles

[pento]

credits.php contains just a small set of titles, many of which don't correspond to the roles that people actually do.

Here are a few I've wished for recently, there are probably more:

• Core Designer
• Release Coordinator
• Tester

Related: #41022

[swissspidy]

Many locales would translate for example "Release Coordinator" to "Release Coordination" because of unknown gender. Maybe we can keep this in mind here and use gender neutral strings by default? :-)

[pento]

Good point, thanks @swissspidy. Yes, we should definitely make things easier for translators. 🙂

[jorbin]

I've taken a first pass at some additional titles.

@swissspidy How do these look for a translation standpoint?

[xkon]

Excuse my English here as I might be missing something, but is "Creater" valid in 46293.diff​ ? I do get the meaning, but can't think of a way translating that on my locale at the moment either :D .

[desrosj]

@xkon What about "Bug Reporter"? Is that better from a translation standpoint?

[swissspidy]

@jorbin Not really. For example, "Design Lead" would work better than "Lead Designer", or "Core Testing" rather than "Core Tester". More the role name than a title I guess.

[xkon]

Yes @desrosj perfect, translating a Bug Reporter would make more sense I believe.

To explain a bit so it's easier to follow the language differences, let me try to explain how changing 1 word would mean a worlds difference on some languages (for example mine):

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A Creator (or Creater in this case if that's valid) would be someone that deliberately creates Bugs, like to break something in the code.

A Reporter on the other hand is actually someone that reports something to be fixed or looked at etc :)
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I guess nobody wants to be a "Creator" from the above explanation :D .

[birgire]

When creating a new ticket on Trac, bug is only one type of tickets,

we also have enhancements and feature requests.

So instead of Bug reporter maybe Ticket reporter or Ticket reporting, using the role name,

would better reflect that it includes all types of tickets.

Other variation that comes to mind is Issue reporter or Issue reporting

when looking at GitHub.

[desrosj]

Beta 3 (soft string freeze) is going to be packaged in a few hours. Since this is About page related, I am going to convert this to a task with the hopes of landing these new titles with the about page and hard string freeze.

Worst case, this just gets punted to 5.3.

[azaozz]

Replying to xkon:

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A Creator (or Creater in this case if that's valid) would be someone that deliberately creates Bugs, like to break something in the code.

A Reporter on the other hand is actually someone that reports something to be fixed or looked at etc :)
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Hahaha, right, the "direct" meaning is similar in all languages (afaik). However I think this was used as a joke here. Someone that "creates' bugs actually makes large, new, nice features. Bugs are always a "part of life" when coding, and "creating bugs" usually means the person is working and contributing a lot.

I understand the meaning in not straightforward, but perhaps that's a good "Easter egg"? ;)

[xkon]

Replying to azaozz:

I understand the meaning in not straightforward, but perhaps that's a good "Easter egg"? ;)

Oh well yes if it was to use it similarly to our "Gardeners" (which again doesn't make much sense at the start when you don't actually know what it is about hahah :D) I guess I missed it but ok I get the idea now :), thank you!

[jorbin]

Punting due to lack of consensus in time for string freeze.

[desrosj]

Does anyone want to own this? Unfortunately, with soft string freeze for 5.3 in a little over a week, this one's looking like a punt candidate again. It still needs discussion and a consensus.

[azaozz]

Looking at this after the 5.3 release, thinking the "opposite" idea also has some merit? Having the "Release Lead" role is nice, but instead of adding more roles how about removing the current "Core Developer"? It kind of sounds... a bit strange as all people listed there are core developers :)

[francina]

I believe that starting with WordPress 5.3 no roles were mentioned except for "Release Lead, so this seems fixed?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Yeah, in recent releases we've taken the route suggested in comment:18 (dropping the "Core Developer" title and only keeping "Release Lead"), so it looks like there is no need for additional titles for now.

We can revisit this later if we ever need more titles again.