Week ending 8/23

Executive summary

This was the quietest week of the quarter: four commits landed Monday morning and none of the following six days shipped anything. Monday's work retired the Translation Studio under-construction notice past its own missed target, folded the standalone partner and volunteer FAQ pages into a new Help FAQs section with redirects, added Help articles on reading this report and on Studio account terms and privacy, and shipped an eighth Translation Skill that scans a source document for translation-blocking issues before translation starts. Content generation stayed paused for a third straight week, with every Library count unchanged from last week.

What's new

• Change

  Removed the Translation Studio under-construction notice after its 15 August completion target passed.

  Impact

  Visitors now see the feature presented as finished rather than still building.

  Next action

  Scope the AI-driven chat redesign the notice was originally standing in for; last week flagged it as still unscoped.

• Change

  Retired the standalone partner and volunteer FAQ marketing pages into a new Help FAQs section, with redirects from the old URLs.

  Impact

  Partner and volunteer questions now live in the same place as every other Help answer instead of two separate pages.

  Next action

  Confirm the 301 redirects catch every inbound link to the old pages.

• Change

  Added Help articles on reading the weekly report and on the Terms of use, licensing, and privacy for a Translation Studio account.

  Impact

  Readers of this report and new Studio account holders now have a written reference instead of asking directly.

  Next action

  None; this is a completed documentation addition.

• Change

  Shipped pre-translation-analysis, an eighth Translation Skill that scans a source document for translation-blocking issues before translation starts.

  Impact

  Unexplained acronyms, uncited Scripture quotes, and idioms get caught before translation instead of mid-process or in back-translation review.

  Next action

  Run it against a real document end to end to confirm the catch rate justifies the added step.

Business impact

Visitors no longer see a "still building" banner on a feature that's been usable for over a week, though the roadmap item the banner stood in for (an AI-driven chat redesign) still has no evidence of being scoped, so its removal closes a visible symptom without closing the gap underneath it. Partner and volunteer questions now live in the same Help section as everything else instead of two standalone marketing pages, with the old links still working. Readers of this report now have a written guide to how to read it, and new Translation Studio accounts have a written answer for what the Terms of use and Privacy policy actually cover. Pre-translation-analysis gives both this repo's own pipeline and every downloader of the Translation Skill bundle a way to catch acronyms, uncited Scripture quotes, and idioms before translation starts, not mid-process or in back-translation review.

Metrics

• Registry decisions awaiting a reviewer

  203(was 203) → No change from last period

  Unresolved for a third straight week; still no named reviewer.

• Languages with a complete New Testament

  57(was 57) → No change from last period

• Languages with a complete Old Testament

  10(was 10) → No change from last period

• Book pages live in the Library

  1,939(was 1,939) → No change from last period

  No language package logged a change this week.

• Languages with a published Library bundle

  67(was 67) → No change from last period

• Help articles published

  12(was 8) ▲ Up from last period

  Five new articles Monday; the FAQ pages were folded in from marketing.

• Translation Skills in the downloadable bundle

  8(was 7) ▲ Up from last period

  Pre-translation-analysis is the eighth.

Risks

Content generation has now been paused three consecutive weeks; no language package logged a change. The 203-decision review queue flagged for three straight weeks still has no evidence of a named reviewer, and the review-capacity gap remains unstaffed. Six of this week's seven days had zero commits, a sharper stop than the prior two weeks' "engineering went elsewhere" pattern — worth confirming whether this was a deliberate pause or an unplanned stall before treating it as the new normal. The Translation Studio under-construction notice was removed on the strength of its target date passing, not on the unscoped chat-redesign roadmap behind it actually being addressed; last week's report flagged that gap and nothing this week closes it.

Decisions needed

Leadership: name the first volunteer reviewers, now unresolved for three straight weeks against a 203-decision queue. Confirm whether this week's six-day work stoppage was a deliberate pause and, if so, what's next; if not, treat it as a real risk rather than a data point. Scope the AI-driven chat redesign the removed under-construction notice was standing in for, so its removal isn't mistaken for the underlying work being done.

Next Week

• Name the first volunteer reviewers for the German and Spanish queues, unresolved for three weeks
• Scope the AI-driven chat redesign the removed under-construction notice was standing in for
• Commit the drafted Preview and select-text-to-action Help article, already written but not yet shipped
• Confirm whether this week's six-day work stoppage was a deliberate pause, and whether content generation resumes

Key dates

No key dates recorded for this period.