Republish so that .description string keys are no longer present

[liammulh]

It looks like FAMB has some old non-Kosher a11y description string keys:

We don't want translators to translate these strings, but we can't really strip these string keys out programmatically because there are other valid string keys with .description in them.

It looks like on master, these string keys are no longer present, so one way to fix this would be to republish from master.

Assigning @jessegreenberg since he is the responsible dev for FAMB.

[jessegreenberg]

Thanks @liammulh, sorry about that. Would it work to do a maintenance release on the published sim somehow? Republishing from master would be very difficult at this point.

Would it break anything to just remove them and their usages from the published 2.3 branch?

[jessegreenberg]

A round of maintenance releases has completed and a new one will begin on Tuesday. We have a little window until then to do work in release branches.

[liammulh]

Would it break anything to just remove them and their usages from the published 2.3 branch?

It wouldn't break anything from the perspective of the translation utility. However, if you're going to change things on the published 2.3 branch, and you're worried about something breaking, why not prepend the .description string keys with a11y? For example, netForce.description would become a11y.netForce.description or a11y.netForce?

The translation utility prevents string keys with a11y in them from being translated, so these string keys would no longer show up in the translation utility. And then since the string keys would still be present in the sim, presumably nothing would break.

That being said, if you think removing these string keys wouldn't break anything in the sim and would be easier than what I suggested, then go ahead and remove them.

[jessegreenberg]

Thanks @liammulh, great. If it's safe to remove them I will go ahead with that.

[liammulh]

@jessegreenberg showed me that these strings have a visible key, which is set to false:

forces-and-motion-basics/forces-and-motion-basics-strings_en.json

Lines 75 to 78 in cf9242a

	"netForce.description": {
	"value": "Forces and Motion Basics. There is a heavily loaded cart on wheels sitting on a track. Attached to the left side of the cart is a thick rope with 4 knots spaced equally along the rope. Standing near this knotted rope is a group of 4 puller people. On the opposite side of the cart, a similar rope with 4 knots is attached to the right side of the cart. There is another group of 4 puller people standing near this rope. The centre position of the cart has been marked on the ground.",
	"visible": false
	},

This is the old way of hiding string keys, and I think at some point the translation utility stopped supporting this. However, it would be (I think) easy to add a patch to the translation utility to hide these string keys.

[liammulh]

I am going to transfer this to Rosetta.

[liammulh]

Actually, I can't, lol. Never mind.

[liammulh]

I caused this regression by not implementing the following:

https://github.com/phetsims/rosetta/blob/5ec74679b3f1c1cdd30f617c47f5bb2c0c0a181c/js/routeHandlers.js#L274-L275

[liammulh]

@jessegreenberg, please close this issue and comment in phetsims/rosetta#411 when you republish FAMB off of master.