app-catalog-felhom.eu/REPORT.md

REPORT — the app catalog speaks English (R-560 slice 5, Parts B and C)

2026-09-20 · catalog main at the batch-3 commit · needs controller v0.257.0, which is now the fleet floor. All 53 apps translated; 1 031 of 1 032 strings.

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For the operator, in one paragraph

Every app now describes itself in English. You read three of them and said go; the other fifty follow that same voice. The English app list on the demo box shows no Hungarian app text at all. The Hungarian pages are unchanged down to the byte. One single line is still Hungarian on purpose — it is wrong in Hungarian, and fixing Hungarian words is not something a translation release may do.

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What shipped, in order

commit	what	strings
the freeze, alone	scripts/copy_freeze/hu.json — every Hungarian copy string, captured before any translation existed	1 032 frozen
the gate	scripts/check-copy-i18n.py, fifth row of catalog_gates.py, + 18 decoy cases	—
the pilot	privatebin, paperless-ngx, romm	89
batch 1	17 apps	319
batch 2	17 apps	317
batch 3	16 apps	306

EN_MISSING_CEILING: 1032 → 943 → 624 → 307 → 1.

No image, no pin, no catalog_since, no compose line changed in any of them. A translation is not a version bump of an app.

The blocks are generated, not hand-written — and that is a decision

Fifty nested YAML blocks whose keys must match the Hungarian side exactly is fifty chances to mistype an env_var. A mistyped key is INERT on the box rather than an error — the app simply keeps showing Hungarian for that field and nobody learns. So each app's English is a flat {path: english} map and a generator builds the block from the same paths the freeze uses, which are derived from the Hungarian file itself. A key that does not exist on the Hungarian side cannot be written at all, and review happens on the map, where one line is one string.

The one string deliberately left in Hungarian

papra's deploy_fields[AUTH_SECRET].description reads „Az alkalmazás aldomainje" — the sentence that belongs on SUBDOMAIN, sitting on a session-signing key. That is a Hungarian defect (R-593). A localisation release may not change Hungarian bytes, and translating a wrong sentence faithfully would ship the error in a second language, so it falls back.

The ceiling's floor is therefore 1, not 0, and that is written into the ceiling's own comment — so a later session cannot "reach zero" by quietly editing Hungarian.

Per-app table

app	copy strings	English	push	live-checked
actualbudget	15	15	batch 3	gate only
adventurelog	17	17	batch 1	yes
audiobookshelf	21	21	batch 2	gate only
bentopdf	14	14	batch 1	yes
bookstack	19	19	batch 1	yes
calcom	21	21	batch 1	gate only
calibre-web	24	24	batch 1	yes
claper	17	17	batch 3	gate only
code-server	20	20	batch 2	gate only
crafty-controller	24	24	batch 2	gate only
docmost	19	19	batch 3	gate only
emby	22	22	batch 3	gate only
ghost	16	16	batch 1	gate only
gitea	16	16	batch 3	yes
glance	15	15	batch 2	gate only
gokapi	19	19	batch 2	gate only
grafana	19	19	batch 1	gate only
gramps-web	16	16	batch 2	gate only
home-assistant	18	18	batch 1	gate only
homebox	16	16	batch 1	gate only
homepage	15	15	batch 1	gate only
immich	24	24	batch 3	yes
jellyfin	22	22	batch 2	gate only
kimai	20	20	batch 3	gate only
komga	21	21	batch 3	gate only
mealie	17	17	batch 2	gate only
n8n	17	17	batch 1	gate only
navidrome	21	21	batch 2	gate only
nextcloud	28	28	batch 1	gate only
onlyoffice	24	24	batch 3	gate only
opengist	15	15	batch 3	yes
outline	21	21	batch 1	gate only
paperless-ngx	33	33	pilot	yes
papra	14	13 (1 left — R-593)	batch 1	gate only
plant-it	16	16	batch 3	gate only
plex	25	25	batch 2	gate only
privatebin	14	14	pilot	yes
radarr	22	22	batch 1	gate only
rallly	17	17	batch 3	gate only
recipe-importer	19	19	batch 3	yes
romm	42	42	pilot	yes
seerr	18	18	batch 3	gate only
sonarr	22	22	batch 2	gate only
sparkyfitness	20	20	batch 1	gate only
tandoor	18	18	batch 2	gate only
termix	11	11	batch 2	gate only
uptime-kuma	16	16	batch 2	gate only
vaultwarden	23	23	batch 3	yes
vikunja	17	17	batch 2	gate only
wanderer	19	19	batch 1	gate only
wger	18	18	batch 2	gate only
wishlist	15	15	batch 2	gate only
zipline	20	20	batch 3	gate only
total	1032	1031		12 apps checked live

Unverified UI labels — for the slice-6 walk (R-561)

These English lines name a button or a menu inside the app's own interface. No gate and no endpoint can tell whether the app shows that word in English; somebody has to open it.

app	the line	what to check
privatebin	"Type your text and select Send"	PrivateBin's send button
paperless-ngx	"Create tags and correspondents"	Paperless's English words for these two
romm	"in the Settings menu" / "Start a Scan from the menu on the left"	RomM's menu and button labels
grafana	"(Connections > Data Sources)"	Grafana's menu path in English
crafty-controller	"server.properties -> server-port"	a file key, not a UI label — but the port range is a claim worth re-checking
vaultwarden	'the "Users" tab, "Invite User"', '"Create account"'	Vaultwarden's English admin labels
immich	"Administration -> External Libraries"	Immich's English menu path
recipe-importer	"Profile -> API Tokens" (Mealie), "Settings -> API Browser -> Auth Token" (Tandoor)	two other apps' English menu paths
komga	"Tachiyomi"	an app name, verbatim — no check needed, listed for completeness
calibre-web	"the import/calibre folder in the File manager (FileBrowser)"	Felhom's own File manager - right by construction unless the controller bundle changes

Several apps' English also names Felhom's own interface (Settings, File manager, Automatically generated values). Those come from the controller's English bundle and are right by construction.

Judgement calls, recorded rather than hidden

• Jellyfin told the reader to pick Hungarian in the setup wizard. For an English household that is wrong advice, so the English reads "choose your language". The Hungarian is untouched.
• Mealie's „multilingual - Hungarian is available too" became "A multilingual interface - English and Hungarian among them": the same fact, seen from the reader's side.
• recipe-importer imports from six Hungarian recipe sites. Its English says exactly that and names the sites; it is not a general importer and the English must not pretend it is.
• Vaultwarden's two select options keep the recommendation on the same option: "No - by invitation only (recommended)".

The gate convicted two of my own sentences, and was half right

Vaultwarden's invite step and sign-up setting both ended "…can open an account". The English retrieval-promise pattern reads can … open as the claim that sealed backups can be opened, so it convicted. Opening an ACCOUNT is not that claim — a false positive — but the wording was also the weaker wording, so both now read "can sign up", which is what a household would say.

The structural gap is that the gate can convict a promise but cannot REGISTER a true one, which is exactly what the shared vocabulary's design calls for. Filed as R-594. Rewording was honest today; the first genuinely true "can be restored" in catalog copy will need the mechanism.

Live proof

Endpoint level, from inside the guest, with the customer Host header and a real session — the same handlers and templates a browser drives, with only the drawing skipped.

• The English Apps list on demo-hp shows ZERO Hungarian app descriptions across all 53 apps. The only Hungarian left on that page is the „Naprakész" badge (R-589, ten occurrences) and the language picker naming itself, which is correct.
• The Hungarian Apps list is identical to the capture taken before the pilot, once the per-session CSRF token and Docker's own „Up N hours" string are normalised.
• Twelve apps were opened individually in both languages across the pushes (the table's last column).
• The second demo box took the new controller by itself when the floor was raised, and then rendered the English tagline — so the mechanism works on a box nobody touched by hand.

Evidence: felhom.eu/documentation/audits/i18n-slice5-2026-09-20/.

Teardown

Nothing installed, nothing removed, no app deployed. Template files changed on both demo boxes, which is what a catalog sync does. Every staged password file and capture script was shredded from both Proxmox hosts and both guests; ls confirms. Both boxes left on Hungarian.