The differences between New and Translated for upstreams was removed

[Curtis Hovey]

In the <https://translations.launchpad.net/josm> project currently all languages are "green" effectively telling that the synchronisation with upstream copied all the strings. But this is wrong for most languages. For these languages the strings should be marked "new", as they aren't contained in upstream at all.

For example "Croatian" is green, but it should not be, as it is not contained in upstream.
But after I looked into the translation itself it seems the difference between New/Translated has been removed, so the upstream status is no longer visible? If yes, that would have removed a very useful feature.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

We need the input from the former rosetta team to know is this is a regression or a design decision.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Indeed, this was a design decision. FWIW, that "feature" never really worked properly for upstream projects (i.e. it could have sometimes indicated that something was synced when it wasn't, and vice versa), so while it may have appeared to work, it never really did 100%. Instead of fixing it, we decided it was better to just remove it since it was also causing a lot of confusion (originally, it was conceived only for ubuntu packages, which is where it remains today; the nature of the implementation today doesn't make it easy to bring it back with it's broken behaviour).

The core idea is that Launchpad upstream projects should reflect what upstream really has. If they don't, they are essentially a "fork" of the upstream project (albeit differs only in translations), but Launchpad can't easily model those at the moment. I think it would be a great feature to have, but it would be a new feature.