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On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 07:48 +0000, Monty Taylor wrote:
> 
> On 01/07/2013 07:27 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 16:43 +0800, Zhongyue Luo wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I understand that i18n is an important feature to customers and that having
> >> gettextutils wrapped on all log messages will benefit
> >> in packing custom .pot files to ship with a product.
> > 
> > If we want to i18n log messages, I think they should be in a separate
> > translation domain from the messages we return to users of the REST API.
> > 
> > The problem with having them both in the same translation domain is that
> > translators have no way of prioritizing the REST API messages nor do
> > administrators have any way of disabling the translation of log messages
> > without the translation of the REST API messages.
> > 
> > Something like this:
> > 
> >   import gettext
> > 
> >   gettext.install('nova', unicode=True)
> >   t = gettext.translation('nova-logmsgs', fallback=True)
> > 
> >   import __builtin__
> >   __builtin__.__dict__['L_'] = t.ugettext
> > 
> >   print _('This is a user-visible message')
> >   print L_('This is a log message')
> > 
> > The next step is to handle the setuptools integration so that it can
> > generate multiple template files and install multiple catalogs. Here's a
> > quick experiment I did for extract_messages:
> > 
> > First in setup.py, add the extract_log_messages command:
> > 
> >   cmdclass = common_setup.get_cmdclass()
> > 
> >   from babel.messages import frontend as babel
> > 
> >   cmdclass['extract_log_messages'] = babel.extract_messages
> > 
> > and, secondly, in setup.cfg configure its default parameters:
> > 
> >   [extract_log_messages]
> >   no_default_keywords = True
> >   keywords = L_
> >   mapping_file = babel.cfg
> >   output_file = nova/locale/nova-logmsgs.pot
> > 
> > It looks like it might just be possible to do this.
> > 
> > I've filed this oslo blueprint, since we'd probably add some helper code
> > to oslo to make this possible:
> > 
> >   https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/log-messages-translation-domain
> 
> GREAT!
> 
> However, before we start doing multiple-domain craziness, we should
> probably finish the task of consuming the messages we currently have.

I don't follow? What aren't we doing? Bug #?

Cheers,
Mark.