support for description on messages

[samuelstroschein]

Problem

The AST has no support for descriptions yet.

Proposal

Add a description fields to the AST.

[samuelstroschein]

How are comments used?

Adding comments to messages entails comments on individual messages. Is that desired? The naive thought is to only display the reference message comment in the UI:

[ivanhofer]

I think a whole context block would make sense. Information that could be added to the block:

• comment
• image (via link? probably a unique RFC is needed for this feature)
• technical information (that don't need to be displayed in the editor, but could be useful for plugins). These information would need to be extracted automatically and are something for later. Just mentioning it here that we keep it in mind.
  • file name
  • line number
  • reference to message id that comes before this message
  • reference to message id that comes after this message
  • how often does this message get used in the code

This also means that inlang needs to store a file in the repo containing that information.

[ivanhofer]

related: #355

[samuelstroschein]

technical information

Just opened #357 for that. Seems like another @inlang/core/x module that will provide such information.

[jannesblobel]

@samuelstroschein, this needs to be clarified. You wrote "comments" in the title but showed a "description" for the translated key in the image.

[samuelstroschein]

Done