[openstack-dev] _() consensus??

Joshua Harlow harlowja at yahoo-inc.com
Thu Nov 29 20:21:21 UTC 2012


They all are?

https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/openstack/

Seems like some partial support for japanese/chinese, but that¹s about it.

Wouldn't a agreement be better to have, instead of grandfathering the past
in (and the weight it entails). Just cause something was initially done
one way doesn't mean its the right way or the best way to go forward.

On 11/29/12 12:06 PM, "Sean Dague" <sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

>On 11/29/2012 02:05 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was just remembering a code review recently
>> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/15394/) where it was brought up by me
>> about how it'd be nice to finally get around to having some type of vote
>> or official decision about using I8LN for LOG messages.
>>
>> Is there any type of agreed upon system for doing this (say restricting
>> the allowed vote to openstack commiters?) Is it possible to re-use the
>> election voting system for this purpose?
>>
>> Seems like this kind of vote could be used for other cross-purpose
>> coding decisions as well where everyone should get an input.
>>
>> For further background on this whole discussion (so we can avoid
>> repeating it yet again).
>>
>>  1. 
>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/11821?search_string=i
>>18n%20of%20log%20message;#11821
>>  2. 
>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/7764?search_string=i1
>>8n%20of%20log%20message
>>
>> Seems like reviews like the above would not be 'abandoned' if we had
>> some official consensus on the path forward.
>
>So, since then, I think a follow up review did go through with the same
>effect - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/16414/
>
>At this point, log messages are basically all translated. There was
>never an official decision either way as far as I can remember, but
>their is now defacto precedence that they are.
>
>So we should either declare that to be the official stance (which would
>be basically, accept the status quo), or someone should write a patch
>that reverts them all to untranslated.
>
>Once a decision is made either way, we should probably put in a gating
>job to enforce the behavior we want so that we don't end up with things
>landing or getting kicked because of the day of the week they get
>submitted. :-)
>
>	-Sean
>
>-- 
>Sean Dague
>IBM Linux Technology Center
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>
>
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