<html><body><p>hmm, I think the policy should depends on projects.<br>For projects which don't have active translations, I think it's OK to backport.<br>For projects which have active translations, "Exception procedure" of StringFreeze could help.<br>Translators need to be notified for the changes.<br><br>If you don't know whether the project has active translations or not, <br>"Exception procedure" can help, anyway.<br><br>Best regards<br>Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)<br><br><br><tt>Matt Riedemann <mriedem@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote on 2016/02/18 08:16:26:<br><br>> From: Matt Riedemann <mriedem@linux.vnet.ibm.com></tt><br><tt>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <br>> <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>, openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org</tt><br><tt>> Date: 2016/02/18 08:18</tt><br><tt>> Subject: [Openstack-i18n] [stable][i18n] What is the backport policy<br>> on i18n changes?</tt><br><tt>> <br>> I don't think we have an official policy for stable backports with <br>> respect to translatable string changes.<br>> <br>> I'm looking at a release request for ironic-inspector on stable/liberty <br>> [1] and one of the changes in that has translatable string changes to <br>> user-facing error messages [2].<br>> <br>> mrunge brought up this issue in the stable team meeting this week also <br>> since Horizon has to be extra careful about backporting changes with <br>> translatable string changes.<br>> <br>> I think on the server side, if they are changes that just go in the <br>> logs, it's not a huge issue. But for user facing changes, should we <br>> treat those like StringFreeze [3]? Or only if the stable branches for <br>> the given project aren't getting translation updates? I know the server <br>> projects (at least nova) is still get translation updates on <br>> stable/liberty so if we do backport changes with translatable string <br>> updates, they aren't getting updated in stable. I don't see anything <br>> like that happening for ironic-inspector on stable/liberty though.<br>> <br>> Thoughts?<br>> <br>> [1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279515/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279515/</a><br>> [2] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279071/1/ironic_inspector/process.py">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279071/1/ironic_inspector/process.py</a><br>> [3] <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StringFreeze">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StringFreeze</a><br>> <br>> -- <br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> <br>> Matt Riedemann<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Openstack-i18n mailing list<br>> Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n</a><br>> <br></tt><BR>
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