The Preference Pack templates are hand-generated default value lists for the variable that I thought most likely to be included in Preference Packs. I basically generated them by looking in the code itself for calls to GetParameterGroupByPath and reading the code that accesses the variable that call...

Doing a full clone to check a PR is definitely overkill. The easiest thing to do is clone the main FreeCAD repo once, and then: Note that if the PR changes you will have to delete that local branch and fetch again.

Is the extension on that file really FCS and not FCStd? Is this Win7? Which version of FreeCAD?

The Preference Pack Templates are the default values of a limited subset of available options. There is no global database, preferences can be created “on the fly”
at any time.

I should point out that while my earlier post was about the 0.21.x release series, that fix I linked to was a backport of a fix originally applied to the main branch, just a few weeks ago. So this bug would have affected dev builds until quite recently.

No, that's purely related to icon generation, it doesn't tell us anything about the updates. But this is actually a known bug in the 0.21.x release, fixed in this commit: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commit/f191fde3b1d05eed6491a3874a14be7de2d39dc3#diff-4ed5128a45f88dc24a7a1e5c6cae7b074751080d2...

The FreeCAD Project Association recently announced our revamped grant application process for 2024 . We are now looking to add to the roster of grant reviewers: this is an unpaid position, but you'll get to help the FPA select which grants to fund and therefore some of the direction of FreeCAD devel...

You can translate them on creation, but once created they will remain in that language even if the language changes (or the user sends the file to someone using a different language, etc.).

So things in /usr/local are being excluded? Am I understanding correctly?

Well, if you submit a draft PR the CI will run on Windows... is that enough for your purposes?