I don't think we have an official policy for stable backports with respect to translatable string changes. I'm looking at a release request for ironic-inspector on stable/liberty [1] and one of the changes in that has translatable string changes to user-facing error messages [2]. mrunge brought up this issue in the stable team meeting this week also since Horizon has to be extra careful about backporting changes with translatable string changes. I think on the server side, if they are changes that just go in the logs, it's not a huge issue. But for user facing changes, should we treat those like StringFreeze [3]? Or only if the stable branches for the given project aren't getting translation updates? I know the server projects (at least nova) is still get translation updates on stable/liberty so if we do backport changes with translatable string updates, they aren't getting updated in stable. I don't see anything like that happening for ironic-inspector on stable/liberty though. Thoughts? [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279515/ [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279071/1/ironic_inspector/process.py [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StringFreeze -- Thanks, Matt Riedemann