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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">"</font><tt><font size="2">API facing messages</font></tt><font size="2" face="sans-serif">", I will call it user-facing API messages, which means, these API is provided for users to invoke,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">these messages will be used for the interaction with users. For example Glance and Keystone provide command line for </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">users to operate, these command line will invoke user-facing APIs. The output of these user-facing APIs will displayed in the</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">console. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">These command lines can also be called "user interface", i.e. command line interfaces, while Horizon is web user interfaces.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">(see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface</a>). The importance of command line interface and web user interface are same.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">If we want to translate Horizon, we should also translate those user-facing APIs message.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">So I prefer option 2. As it is said that</font><font size="2" face="Default Sans Sarif"> </font><font size="2" face="Default Sans Sarif">option 3 being not significantly more work than option 2, so option 3 is also acceptable for me.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Default Sans Sarif">Regards</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Default Sans Sarif">Daisy</font><br>
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<tt><font size="2">Joshua Harlow <harlowja@yahoo-inc.com> wrote on 05/08/2012 01:46:32 AM:<br>
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> Joshua Harlow <harlowja@yahoo-inc.com> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> 05/08/2012 01:46 AM</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> To</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> Andrew Clay Shafer <acs@parvuscaptus.com>, Ying Chun Guo/China/IBM@IBMCN, </font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> cc</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> Thierry Carrez <thierry@openstack.org>, openstack <br>
> <openstack@lists.launchpad.net></font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> Subject</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> Re: [Openstack] i18n of log message</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> I think option 1 is needed, for obvious reasons.<br>
> <br>
> API facing messages, not so sure about that, I would say english for<br>
> those, since they are meant for people interacting with an API and <br>
> not front-end users.<br>
> <br>
> I would think this would be pretty easily solvable by basically <br>
> following what other open source projects already do. It would be <br>
> useful possibly to have a survey of other projects and just follow <br>
> the same pattern?? <br>
> <br>
> On 5/7/12 7:53 AM, "Andrew Clay Shafer" <acs@parvuscaptus.com> wrote:<br>
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<tt><font size="2">> <br>
> I would vote for 0 or 1 on the cost versus benefit. Option 0 is the <br>
> least overhead, but option 1 would be nice for a lot of reasons. <br>
> <br>
> The downside to i18n of the logs and errors in the dilution of <br>
> information available to find solutions can be higher than the <br>
> benefit of providing messages in a native language.<br>
> <br>
> The level of effort is certainly much much higher to provide option 3.<br>
> <br>
> I'd vote for effort to go to improving the OpenStack core technology<br>
> and features over something that adds a lot of overhead and also <br>
> some downside.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Ying Chun Guo <guoyingc@cn.ibm.com> wrote:</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="2">> I will vote option 3, because I think API-user-facing messages is as<br>
> important as <br>
> user interface messages. Since the workload of option 3 is not much <br>
> more than option 2,<br>
> option 3 will be a better choice.<br>
> <br>
> btw, I see documentation, e.g. OpenStack manuals, is excluded in <br>
> these four options. <br>
> Does that mean there is no comments against the globalization of <br>
> documentation?<br>
> <br>
> Regards<br>
> Daisy<br>
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