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On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 09:56 +0100, Joe Gordon wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
>         Hi Daisy,
>         
>         On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 21:48 +0800, Ying Chun Guo wrote:
>         > Hi, Mark
>         >
>         > I think there is a blueprint we discussed in the Havana summit to
>         > separate translation domains.
>         > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/log-messages-translation-domain
>         >
>         > I don't see any progress there.
>         > Do you have any plan to implement it?
>         > The translation team set the command line message as high priority,
>         > but log messages as low priority.
>         > So we want the domains can be separated.
>         
>         Given that there's been no progress on this, I suggest we take a
>         pragmatic approach to allow us to move forward
>         
>           - The fact that the "high priority" and "low priority" messages are
>             mixed together means we can't get to high levels of translations
>             for the high priority messages.
>         
>           - It's time we deal with this issue around high priority messages with
>             some urgency, even if that means hurting the ability to have low
>             priority messages translated.
>         
>           - In other words, we should submit patches to have the low priority
>             messages no longer marked for translation.
>         
>           - Once someone comes up with a solution for a separate translation
>             domain for low priority messages, we can go back and mark the low
>             priority messages for translation again.
>         
>           - This sounds like a lot of churn, but every low priority message
>             will need to be touched even if we come up with a solution for a
>             separate translation domain e.g. changing _() to l_()
>         
>         The key thing here is to have some very concrete rules about which
>         messages are high priority and low priority. The question is more subtle
>         than it seems.
> 
> 
> What about starting with log messages are all low priority (except
> perhaps for the error level?).  A quick grep shows these are *roughly*
> half of the translations.

I'm cool with that as a first baby step. Whatever it takes to get the
number of log messages down to something that is reasonable to expect
translators to translate.

Unless it's plausible for a translator to get to 100% of our messages,
then some of the highly user-visible messages won't be translated.

Cheers,
Mark.