Remove bundled Bulgarian translations

Author: Tsvetan Stoychev

.agents/skills/change-basicrum-settings/SKILL.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: Change Basicrum WordPress settings across defaults, admin UI, valid
 # Change Basicrum Settings
 
 Treat a setting as one behavior spanning storage, administration, validation,
-runtime use, upgrades, tests, documentation, and translations.
+runtime use, upgrades, tests, documentation, and the gettext template.
 
 ## Map the setting
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ runtime use, upgrades, tests, documentation, and translations.
 ## Implement the complete behavior
 
 - Keep the `basicrum_settings` schema synchronized across defaults, UI,
-  validation, runtime code, tests, docs, translations, and any post-release
+  validation, runtime code, tests, docs, the POT template, and any post-release
   migrations.
 - Make server-side validation authoritative. Client-side disabled states and
   invalid-field styling are usability aids, not security controls.
@@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ make unit
 make conventions
 ```
 
-Run `make translations` for changed strings and require a second generation to
-produce no diff. Manually verify enabled, disabled, invalid, and valid form
+Run `make translations` for changed strings and require a second POT generation
+to produce no diff. Manually verify enabled, disabled, invalid, and valid form
 states when layout or browser behavior changes.

.agents/skills/integrate-basicrum-consent/SKILL.md

@@ -74,5 +74,5 @@ git diff --check
 ```
 
 Update `examples/integrations/README.md`, the main README, plugin readme, privacy
-guidance, release required-file checks, and translations when the
+guidance, release required-file checks, and POT template when the
 administrator-visible contract changes.

.agents/skills/release-basicrum-plugin/SKILL.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Test the artifact users install, not only the source checkout.
   dependencies in a temporary tree with an optimized authoritative autoloader;
   do not replace normal Composer PSR-4 loading with a handwritten runtime
   autoloader.
-- Include referenced runtime PHP, JavaScript, CSS, images, translations, readme,
+- Include referenced runtime PHP, JavaScript, CSS, images, the POT template, readme,
   license, and production vendor files.
 - Exclude tests, Playwright and Node files, examples, Docker files, agent skills,
   local configuration, caches, and development dependencies.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ explicit and use combinations supported by WordPress core.
   merging updates.
 - Keep default workflow permissions read-only. Grant `contents: write` only to
   release jobs that attach artifacts.
-- Run Composer validation, auditing, PHPStan, translation reproducibility,
+- Run Composer validation, auditing, PHPStan, POT-template reproducibility,
   repository conventions, and generated-asset checks.
 
 ## Exercise the artifact

.agents/skills/update-basicrum-copy/SKILL.md

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 ---
 name: update-basicrum-copy
-description: Update Basicrum branding, user-facing copy, documentation, and WordPress gettext catalogs. Use for naming changes, BasicRUM or Basic Rum cleanup, Brum Site ID help text, logos, POT/PO/MO files, or ASCII-hyphen checks.
+description: Update Basicrum branding, user-facing copy, documentation, and the WordPress gettext template. Use for naming changes, BasicRUM or Basic Rum cleanup, Brum Site ID help text, logos, POT files, or ASCII-hyphen checks.
 ---
 
 # Update Basicrum Copy
 
-Change source text and every generated or translated representation as one unit.
+Change source text and its generated gettext template as one unit.
 
 ## Find the full text surface
 
 1. Search case-insensitively across PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Markdown, WordPress
-   readme, tests, fixtures, examples, workflows, POT, and PO files.
-2. Distinguish source strings from generated catalogs and compiled MO files.
+   readme, tests, fixtures, examples, workflows, and POT files.
+2. Distinguish source strings from the generated POT template.
 3. Check identifiers separately from display text; do not casually rename stored
    option keys, hooks, handles, or public callbacks.
 
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Change source text and every generated or translated representation as one unit.
 - Use ASCII hyphens only. Do not introduce en dashes or em dashes.
 - Keep statements about consent, privacy, and compliance precise. Basicrum
   follows the external tool's decision; it does not make a site compliant.
-- Keep WordPress gettext calls in PHP source. Do not hand-edit binary MO files.
+- Keep WordPress gettext calls in PHP source. Do not add locale-specific PO or
+  MO files unless bundled translations are deliberately restored.
 - Update tests that intentionally assert rendered copy without making tests less
   specific merely to avoid maintaining wording.
 
@@ -43,6 +44,5 @@ git diff --check
 ```
 
 The second translation run must be idempotent. Search again for every retired
-spelling after generation, inspect the POT and PO diff, and verify MO files were
-produced by the documented tool. Run relevant PHP or browser tests when rendered
-markup, selectors, or behavior changed.
+spelling after generation and inspect the POT diff. Run relevant PHP or browser
+tests when rendered markup, selectors, or behavior changed.

.agents/skills/update-basicrum-copy/agents/openai.yaml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 interface:
   display_name: "Update Basicrum Copy"
-  short_description: "Update branding, copy, and translation catalogs"
-  default_prompt: "Use $update-basicrum-copy to update Basicrum wording and regenerate every translation artifact."
+  short_description: "Update branding, copy, and gettext template"
+  default_prompt: "Use $update-basicrum-copy to update Basicrum wording and regenerate the POT template."

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -54,27 +54,6 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: plugins/basicrum
         run: composer analyse
 
-  translations:
-    name: Translation catalogs
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
-
-      - name: Setup PHP and WP-CLI
-        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@f3e473d116dcccaddc5834248c87452386958240 # v2
-        with:
-          php-version: '8.2'
-          tools: wp-cli:2.12.0
-          coverage: none
-
-      - name: Regenerate translation catalogs
-        run: sh tools/update-translations.sh plugins/basicrum
-
-      - name: Check for stale translation artifacts
-        run: git diff --exit-code -- plugins/basicrum/languages
-
   javascript:
     name: JavaScript loader behavior
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -232,7 +211,6 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - conventions
       - quality
-      - translations
       - javascript
       - woocommerce-e2e
       - unit

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The installable plugin is [`plugins/basicrum/`](plugins/basicrum/). Repository r
 
 Follow the permanent conventions in [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md), including WordPress Coding Standards, PHP 7.4 compatibility, ASCII hyphens, synchronized version metadata, privacy-safe consent behavior, and immutable GitHub Actions pins.
 
-When changing user-facing text, regenerate WordPress translation catalogs. When changing settings, keep defaults, rendering, validation, runtime behavior, tests, and documentation synchronized.
+When changing user-facing text, regenerate the WordPress POT template. Locale-specific PO and MO files are not bundled. When changing settings, keep defaults, rendering, validation, runtime behavior, tests, and documentation synchronized.
 
 ## Verification
 

Makefile

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "  composer-validate  Validate Composer metadata and lock file"
 	@echo "  composer-audit     Audit locked Composer dependencies"
 	@echo "  conventions        Enforce ASCII hyphens and version consistency"
-	@echo "  translations       Update POT, PO, and MO translation catalogs"
+	@echo "  translations       Update the POT translation template"
 	@echo "  js-install         Install locked JavaScript test dependencies"
 	@echo "  js-test            Run loader behavior tests in Chromium"
 	@echo "  woocommerce-e2e    Run WooCommerce page-type browser tests"

README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The complete webmaster-facing behavior and consent instructions live in the [Wor
 | Path | Purpose |
 | --- | --- |
 | [`plugins/basicrum/`](plugins/basicrum/) | Installable plugin source |
-| [`tools/`](tools/) | Setup, test, translation, and release scripts |
+| [`tools/`](tools/) | Setup, test, and release scripts |
 | [`docker/`](docker/) | Local WordPress and WooCommerce environments |
 | [`tests/javascript/`](tests/javascript/) | Browser tests for loaders, consent adapters, and settings |
 | [`examples/integrations/`](examples/integrations/) | Consent-tool integration examples |

docs/audits/checklist.md

@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ operator-journey defect, P3 = minor/polish.
 
 ## A. Plugin engineering
 
-- [x] P0 Regenerate translation catalogs and commit (`make translations`).
-  Completed in `784b2bf`. Two consecutive generations produced identical
-  catalogs, and the translation CI gate passed after push. (privacy 5 /
-  DISC-10, lab-elevated)
+- [x] P0 Remove the bundled Bulgarian PO/MO catalogs and the standalone
+  translation CI job by product decision. Keep the POT-only local generator for
+  future gettext work, exclude locale-specific catalogs from release ZIPs, and
+  remove the translation job from the release dependency chain. (privacy 5 /
+  DISC-10, superseded)
 - [x] P1 Make `strip_query_string` a first-class Visitor Privacy setting,
   disabled by default by product decision and emitted as a Boomerang boolean.
   When enabled, this flag redacts `u`, `nu`, `r`, and `restiming`